David and Goliath battle pitting billionaire Andrew Forrest against remote community: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-11/andrew-forrest-fortescue-yindjibarndi-compensation-decision/106640484

Have you asked your member for Cook @voicesofcook.bsky.social what the resulting deaths, damages, emissions and cost to the community of taxing and investing in gas will be? Why aren't you asking him about a billionaire tax? #VoicesofCook #auspol #communityindependents

This is how Australia's government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat see also: thinktanks, NGO's... amazing what money can buy...

Aboriginal trauma is real Australia is still committing genocide after a holocaust Racism is real Palestine is a mirror. Not just for us, for white Australia too. This is what you did to steal our country.

It's called the Godzilla El Niño, because it's coming for us all 😕 #auspol #climate #climateemergency #climitecrisis #heatwave

Reminder that Barbara Pocock is on the board of The Australia Institute. You know, the "progressive thinktank" funded by Andrew Forrest. Billionaires are a policy failure - but not when you're being funded by them. @antipovertycentre.org @phonakins.com @robertarnol.bsky.social

The media with every Australian Climate 200 candidate: #AusPol #climate

Waiting for an answer @patrickgaley.bsky.social because Australia has some really questionable "reporting" of election candidates. Michelle Milthorpe "a climate force to be reckoned with" is literally being financially supported by the Murdoch Family in beef export heartland.

Good morning Australia. If you’re pro climate, anti racism, how are community independents helping?

When you're on a taxable payment, like JobSeeker, you get taxed as soon as you start earning money as JobSeeker is higher than the tax free threshold, while still well below the poverty line. You payment starts being cut from ever dollar over $150 earned.

"A climate force to be reckoned with" How, @crikey.com.au, when this is Michelle Milthorpe? "we still need coal and gas for grid stability" We're the largest per capita users of coal in the world.

@solidarity.social If you're not a bot, who are the people behind you, and how are you funded? Why isn't that information on your website? Why should anyone trust you when you can't be transparent?

Andrew Forrest is a billionaire. You can't earn a billion dollars. His family are invaders of Australia. He's being sued by First Nations. Billionaires are a policy failure. youtube.com/shorts/rV3R3...

“Airports charge operating fees to airlines to cover their bottom lines, and the airlines in turn pass those fees on to passengers. Sims said the fees rose ‘massively’ after Australia privatized its airports.” Australia provides a cautionary tale on privatize airports, just as on private healthcare

Hoo roo and happy 100th birthday David Attenborough

The "Stronger Smart Virtual Secondary College" concept by First Nations for First Nations via @robertarnol.bsky.social ⬇️ beats the hell out of the current school policing/compulsory income management concept in the Northern Territory which is flat out racism. #AusPol

This cannot be allowed to happen. 'SA government prepped to chop down more than 1,000 trees for Adelaide Parklands projects'

You’d think @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social would be wanting to make it easier for people to get off gas and on to electric during a climate crisis. The gas tax as @glenpeters.bsky.social of CICERO has shown, is about *supporting* the gas industry. Australia has been told to "be like Norway". ⬇️🧵1/2

For overseas people who are interested in Australia. ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Australia Could Australia become a dictatorship? Australian constitutional expert, Professor Emerita Anne Twomey AO, explains. youtube.com/watch?v=j8P_...

Welcome to #genocide + #racism in Australia. Compulsory Income Management is a tool of the #AtlasNetwork which started with Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison + Andrew Forrest. It's a human rights violation, which @albomp.bsky.social promised to abolish if he came into power. He's since refused to do so.

"The rich and powerful piss on us, and the media tell us it’s raining. That is the unfortunate truth about trickle-down economics, and never has it been more appropriate than right now, when the 'world’s top one per cent own more wealth than 95 per cent of humanity'." #AndrewForrest

Tell us Alex, what’s the “one simple trick” for billionaires not to be corrupt and hide their wealth so that it isn’t taxed? Whats the ”one simple trick” to stop the ATO doing another batch of #robodebt to whomever they please? #auspol

@glenpeters.bsky.social of CICERO, Norway's leading institute for climate research w/ answers ⬇️. "The Norwegian system is not to discourage investment, it is the opposite. It is not an environmental measure." Which begs the question for Norway/Australia: how do you have wealth on a dead planet?

Norway has the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world. When Richard Denniss from The Australia Institute is spruiking Norway as the solution to Australia's problems, the evidence tells us that he's lying. Australian media has a role to tell the truth @withmeaa.bsky.social. You're failing.

"If you can't get emissions down, you're not dealing with climate change." - @billhare.bsky.social How are fossil fuel taxing Norway bringing emissions down by opening up gas fields? How does that work @glenpeters.bsky.social ? Why advocate for Australia to be like Norway?

@allouryesterdays.bsky.social 400 ppm. "A person has already born who will die from catastrophic failure of the planet". We're at 431 ppm.

Some folks think about the Roman Empire. I think about Australia’s low economic complexity every day. Too much wealth from land/commodities, not enough capability-building. Mining booms inflate costs and squash all other pursuits --> classic #DutchDisease. #auspol

Australia: why listen to a fossil fuelled billionaire asking for $50 million diesel welfare when more than 4% of the population are in poverty? Andrew Forrest wants capping on diesel? Great, @antipovertycentre.org he gets the payment + conditions of Compulsory Income Management. #AndrewForrest

What an excellent idea Rod. School Children in Australia 100% deserve a hearty lunch. @robertarnol.bsky.social lets start with the billionaire that funds The Australia Institute, shall we? #EatTheRich

If you can't get emissions down, you're not dealing with climate change, says Bill Hare of Climate Analytics, who is funded by Andrew Forrest. Forrest has one of the largest herds of cattle in Australia. Cattle are responsible for the bulk of our methane emissions in agriculture.

"Penny Wong, Mark Butler and Katy Gallagher, and most loyal lieutenants, Tim Ayres, Pat Conroy and Andrew Giles, are all from the left." What is left wing about Penny Wong endorsing fossil fuels and the USA administration? This is your "journalism" @withmeaa.bsky.social. That's some low standards.

Billionaires shouldn't exist. Billionaires, they gotta go. #billionaires #MetGala #JeffBezos #BoycottAmazon

I love you Mary Hill ❤️ #MetGala @kimkelly.bsky.social ✊🏽

The Met Gala is receiving pushback this year after it was announced that Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos, and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, are the main benefactors.

Met Gala VIP toilet, installed outside the Met Museum in New York. A $100,000 ticket gets you fashion, glamour, and apparently the full Amazon worker experience. 💋

Mercury Newspaper article about yesterday’s memorial. Dates are wrong and we’ve asked for them to be fixed, but overall a positive report.

Does anyone know what the tax is on gas imports for Australia? Asking for an Andrew Forrest, who donates to The Australia Institute. #AndrewForrest

Is electricity demand growth AND fossil decline possible? Australia says no @patrickgaley.bsky.social and this renewables boosterism for a fossil fuelled country is getting damn tiring. climateactiontracker.org/countries/au... Australia has no plan to decarbonize @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social.

Same story the world over.

This applies to Launceston and now Burnie, I hear. Marinus was never about the power interchange, it’s about the AI data centres. As many windfarms as possible, to provide power infrastructure that Tasmanians will pay for, to power water and power hungry centres that benefit others #taspol #auspol

In 10 years, what have the deaths, damages and emissions from that $125 billion of LNG amounted to? When Norway has shown that taxing gas = rising emissions, why advocate for fossil fuelled deaths?

"Being tough on crime doesn’t mean more people in jails, it means doing the hard work that is repeatedly ignored." Amen to that. Putting 10 year olds on Alice Springs to Darwin commercial flights, shackled, to be dumped into prison for 1 million pa on the taxpayer dime... Who are we?

Feeling smug for the worst reasons, because who in their right minds wants this to be true? The icing on this fucked up cake will be Barnaby Joyce taking on "leadership" of the Gina Rinehart party.

How about Aboriginal deaths in custody?

@allouryesterdays.bsky.social Labor Day: Mustering sheep + cattle, taming horses + fencing in one of the hottest regions on Earth = brutal work. From the 1860s until May 1, 1946, it was done almost entirely by Aboriginal stockmen, while women worked as domestic servants. They weren't paid.

FYI on Australia's Labor Day @workingclasshistory.com "Left in the red dirt: The forgotten trail of Australia’s longest strike Two decades before Vincent Lingiari led the Wave Hill walk-offs, 800 Aboriginal workers embarked on a three-year rebellion that changed the Pilbara forever." 💪🏿✊🏽🖤💛❤️ #AusPol

Did you know @justinmikulka.bsky.social @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social that Andrew Forrest has 💀enabled gas import 💀funds the Australia Institute, silent about gas damages/deaths/emissions that gas taxes enable 💀he’s a right wing colonialist being sued by First Nations ? Why promote that?

Many people struggle to understand why billionaires want more money But it's not about money, if they wanted money they would have stopped at $100-200m It's about control and power, they want to control everything and have power over everyone This isn't activism, it's economics

What's smart having one of Australia's largest polluters at your conference @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social? “With the exception of [Australia’s richest person and fellow mining magnate] Gina Rinehart, no Australian has ever caused more damage to the environment than Andrew Forrest” #AndrewForrest