This is a fun game: What are some actual luxury beliefs? What can you only believe in if you are rich? I'll open the bidding with "meritocracy".

“Two high profile Liberals defect to One Nation” Also, Hollie Hughes and Teena McQueen.

I just saw an aurora alert come through. So, if you are in Tasmania or along the very south coast of Australia, you might like to take some test shots tonight (if you have clear skies). No moon, so that's good. It's likely to be sporadic though.

180,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sharing for the Saturday morning crew and those who haven't seen it yet: I want to level up my public climate and energy comms as part of my new business. To do that well I need your help. Could you please complete this very short survey for me? forms.gle/DNr8ZrUJmHtp...

In the unlikely event that the LNP should ever be in a position to implement this policy, Angus Taylor should be required to personally attend the funeral of every person who is killed by it at his own expense.

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#Climate politics in the US is often presented as: Republicans = oil Democrats = climate action Then you look at the production data and realize that whoever is in charge, oil keeps winning. We’re not going to get anywhere on climate until liberals are willing to confront that reality too.

I'm seeing lots of anti renewables hysteria on the internet about a blade falling off a turbine at Lal Lal wind farm in Victoria. Weird how these people didn't seem concerned about the fire at the Viva refinery or the Hazelwood mine fire...

As I said a fair while ago: one clear indicator of an uncontrolled, unplanned data centre boom in Australia would be a 'hedgehog chart' style ratcheting projections effect (think the IEA's famous solar projections chart, but for worse emissions rather than lower emissions) Well....it's happening 😅

I made a comic about CAPITAL GAINS TAX DISCOUNTS because the changes are COMPLICATED www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

It just occurred to me that if the Libs, Nats and One Nation form a broader power sharing arrangement, then that will be an Indian Coalition: Blue, Orange, Green and very fucking White.

“Can you be more specific in your racism?” Ha HA! Gotcha

💛 HI FRIENDS I NEED YOUR HELP 💛 I am planning to step up the free public climate and energy education that I do online. To do that, I would like to understand a bit more about your wants and needs. Would you please be able to complete this survey? There's a little treat for you at the end!

An early and exceptionally surprising insight from this: I have 31 responses so far and more than half of the folks who have responded so far live outside capital cities. I definitely would not have expected that.

What a day! We just wrapped up the first ever climate case to be heard in the High Court of Australia, the country’s apex court. Johnson Legal proudly represented our brave clients Wendy and Tony and other Hunter Valley residents. www.climateinthecourts.com/high-court-o...

💛 HI FRIENDS I NEED YOUR HELP 💛 I am planning to step up the free public climate and energy education that I do online. To do that, I would like to understand a bit more about your wants and needs. Would you please be able to complete this survey? There's a little treat for you at the end!

Does anyone have recent (past few months) data on the demographics of One Nation voters? I see a lot of commentary that repeats the line that One Nation voters are forgotten or struggling economically. I am not sure that's really true, especially as they eat further and further into the LNP vote.

'The form then instructed applicants to “please detail how you will promote the Santos brand through your event or program and what activation you have planned”.' Just Santos insisting that you promote their business in exchange for their charity.

The Oz managed to find a bloke on Struggle Street willing to stand in front of his Porsche and complain about being hard done by. Actual quote: "as he approaches his 80th year, Mr Conkey is contemplating adding another investment property to his portfolio.”

I don't know for a fact that this project is an outright scam - it could just be an exceptionally ill-considered scheme - but charlatans sure do love a crisis, and journos hunting for yet another new angle on an ongoing story sure do love publishing them.

Won't somebody think of the rich people who own an empty $5 million plus home in NYC having to pay a modest tax (looks like 0.5%)

Tony Blair Institute is once again issuing press releases attacking climate policy in support of a report that seems to be mainly calling for more better managed grids and faster electrification.

I'm really fucking disappointed about Farrer. I grew up there. I know many of my friends and relatives will have voted ONP. But I'm also disappointed to see all the country-bashing on here. Perhaps not giving a fuck about rural issues is part of the problem. #AusPol

"The Australian government temporarily withdrew from the OECD’s most recent literacy study for data security reasons, instead opting to conduct its own “Survey of Adult Skills in Australia”. However, that survey has since been outsourced to a commercial polling company, Roy Morgan." Sorry, what?

Australians: your Friday night reading is @timinclimate.bsky.social's amazing report into how the government is basically claiming climate action credit for a bunch of exits and shutdowns in their biggest industrial emissions scheme --->>>>>>>>>>>>> naruresearch.com.au/2025-safegua...

It's so funnysad to me that this deep into the climate crisis we all get to pretend that our federal and state environmental approvals agencies have any interest at all in protecting the people, places and livelihoods that depend on a safe climate. They are not here for you.

These comments from NextDC CEO Craig Scroggie demonstrate two key tactics used in data centre PR: - TACTICAL VAGUENESS: 'Our data centre will run your life-saving surgery. No, we won't tell you what % of our huge energy consumption relates to AI surgery computation, that's secret business info'

April 2026: joint 3rd warmest April on record. New Copernicus climate data show near-record ocean heat, widespread marine heatwaves, low Arctic sea ice & sharp contrasts across Europe. A climate increasingly shaped by extremes. More: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-s...

In this week’s newsletter: charts on why Hollywood is increasingly abandoning dramas, the all-pervasive presence of oil in everyday life, how big Donald Trump’s new arch might be, and where in the world is heating up the most from climate change 📊 www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

🚨 BREAKING: The Federal Court will hand down its decision in the Murray floodplains case this coming Tuesday at 9:30am. This is a huge day for Friends of Nyah Vinifera Park & their fight to protect Murray Rivers floodplains & forests. 📣 Watch the livestream: fedcourt.webex.com/wbxmjs/joins...

Even if Texas was reducing emissions, it's not even an example of the success of the free market. Texas passed an early, ambitious, well-run Renewable Portfolio Standard in 1999! The clean energy industry in Texas wouldn't exist without government regulation creating demand for their product!

Cursed to scream this into the void forever but: this is an absurd comparison and tells you absolutely nothing at all about whether aggressive deregulation and The Free Market results in a lot of clean energy @ramez.bsky.social should 1,000% know better than to say something like this A short 🧵

Personally, I reckon we could do with one fewer Tim Baxter though.

Aussies pay more tax on beer than gas giants pay on the gas they export overseas. Head to the pub this Friday May 8 (Mate Day), raise a glass for a 25% gas export tax, snap a pic, and post publicly tagging @AlboMP #TaxGasNotBeer

Need a more family friendly way to take part. We’ve got you covered. Our kids pay more for HECS than gas companies pay for Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). It’s not fair.

Really good piece on the history of gas tax in Australia by Gareth Hutchens www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

This is a great video update on DAMSHEG's High Court case against Mach Energy's new coal mine.

Ok. As the boss of electricity, I am making it official. This is what everyone is calling a duck curve that has been flattened by battery load shifting from now on.

🟡 Naru Research is open for business 🟡 So in some very cool news, my new consultancy is now officially at a stage where I can declare it open for business! 🎉 If you're keen on doing good in the climate and energy transition, but need research and strategy insights to help drive impact, let's chat!

Because it simply must be said: Fucken 12C, Melbourne? Is that really necessary in early May? Is that what the cool cities told you to do? Ugh.

"Dirty" as a stand-in for "foreign" is making a comeback too. As if it ever left. Cool.

Notably no mention of climate, emissions, renewables, electrification, transition or net zero in the Australian government's fuel security announcement today. Just as there was no mention of these things in the government's statements on what was agreed with the Japanese PM earlier this week.

IT'S NOT EVEN A REAL FIGURE! THE CLAIM THAT 7.5 MILLION AUSTRALIANS TOOK SICK LEAVE IN 2023/24 IS AN ASSUMPTION PLUCKED FROM FUCKEN THIN AIR! THEY TOOK THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT THEY THOUGHT WERE ELIGIBLE FOR SICK LEAVE AND MULTIPLIED IT BY 0.8! WHERE DOES 0.8 COME FROM? IT'S A FUCKEN GUESS!

Sidenote: This table describes itself as showing "stock and flow". Anyone who can explain to me how this demonstrates "stock and flow" can have a totally guilt free cookie with my permission.

This is such a ridiculous way to frame the topic, bordering on outright disingenuous. The report this headline is based on includes employer provided sick leave as "income support". The "more than 8 million Australians on income support" includes 7.5 million people who took any sick leave.

Honestly, this is what guys like Keith Windshuttle fought to keep from us with his sunny, heroic Australian histories. Weirdly, it's actually very Soviet.

You should watch this today before you clock in for whatever today's activities are for you. It's only short. 👇

So I have been watching this creator on YouTube and Tiktok for a while. His schtick is that he is building a 3D model of the Harold Holt Swimming Pool (a place I spent a lot of time as a kid) while telling the story of Harold Holt's life. It's all crazy, but HO-LEE SHIIIIIIT with this one!

A better Australia is absolutely possible, whether we're talking inland rail, climate policy, or literally anything else that is important. The money exists. It is just being spent elsewhere.