Life continues in Ukraine. We can't all send missile defence, but that's not all that's needed. Ukrainians need to know that what they're fighting for really will be there, and Putin needs to know that what he wants will never happen. We have a report on this out next Monday.

Paris is an agreement to stabilise the climate by doing as much as we can and never less than before to reduce GHG emissions. Dropping net zero and repealing all our efforts to prevent emissions is 100% leaving Paris, no matter what anyone gaslights www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Good. No place for Nazis. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Very interesting & wide ranging poll on Australian views of PRC-relations - Most Australian want closer economic relations with Taiwan - 68% support backing Philippines in South China Sea - 50% agree that AUKUS makes us safer (25% disagree) www.uts.edu.au/globalassets...

The Nationals seem to be calling for public funding for new coal power plants. I’m curious where they’d get to if they just kept getting everything they asked for

AI has the answer about why this triple-zero failure is even technically possible:

What the hell is going on with triple-0? I’ve never heard of people being unable to connect before but suddenly it’s everywhere. Having an old handset is not a valid reason to fail to connect. Why is this even difficult? www.smh.com.au/technology/t...

The best way to reduce hospital spending is to invest in Infection prevention. Right now, we’re doing almost none. #auspol

Asked how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affects energy prices in Australia, Sussan Lay said “we’ve moved well past that.” She might want to tell Ukraine, because they’re still being killed every day by Russian occupiers.

I’m fine with proscribing any Nazi-derivative group as a terrorist organisation even if they aren’t planning violence (yet). The right to associate doesn’t need to include associating with Nazis. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Huge kudos to the SMH for the way they’ve covered this story. It’s been a massive news week, but they didn’t let anything knock this off the front page. We CANNOT allow Nazism to return to power. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

It’s time to proscribe these psychos as a terrorist organisation. It’s intolerable to imagine that they could register a Nazi party in Australia today & the only thing standing in their way is they can’t use an obscene name.

Bloody hell. A 17 year old Canberra boy (a nazi) was planning a chemical weapon attack in Canberra. He wanted to attack non-white homeless people with chlorine gas, and live-stream it. He said “white revolution is the only solution.” 😳 Fuck me. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

The defence agreement with Indonesia helps solidify the notion that Australia would support the defence of anyone who was attacked in our region. It builds trust that our defense investments are in the interests of all our neighbours. An extremely good development. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

As mammals replaced dinosaurs, drop bears replaced drop crocs.

The Libs say they want to be serious about emissions, remain in the Paris Agreement, but abandon Net Zero. But the Paris Agreement is an agreement to only become more (not less) committed to preventing emissions. So if they don't know what Paris is, how serious are they?

It’s time for politicians to lead on Asia capability, because business won’t, the public and media pundits are sceptical, and universities have lost most of their social licence. So, time to act, and talk less, before it is too late… asialink.unimelb.edu.au/diplomacy/po...

Excellent comment about why Australia should push hard to host the next COP www.smh.com.au/national/if-...

A Hong Kong couple were sentenced to 13 and 17 months in prison for perverting the course of justice after they hid four protesters who were attempting to flee to Taiwan by boat www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

Events like this are why we need a whole lot more people with basic training in disaster response. We think we need a National Disaster Reserves curtinrc.org/preparing-au...

This is one of the most evil things I’ve heard, even in 2025

Australia's national electricity grid reached an important milestone in October, with renewable energy providing 50% of our electricity over the month for the first time.

If this opened up cities other than Sydney & Melbourne, it would be revolutionary. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

lol. Amazon is grump that agentic AI just buys what the customer wants & doesn’t respond to advertising or upselling, & sidesteps their efforts to deceptively subscribe people to Prime ground.news/article/sour...

NSW Parliament is conducting an inquiry into clean indoor air. www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/i... Submissions due Dec 12

Australia has finally legislated a federal Centre for Disease Control www.health.gov.au/ministers/th...

Fantastic that the CDC legislation just passed the Australian senate! Doesn’t seem to have been reported by almost any news www.nationaltribune.com.au/australia-on...

📣 Just one more sleep! We’re so looking forward to seeing many of you at our Safer shared air: Making the invisible visible conference tomorrow - whether you’re joining in person or online. There's still time to register to join us for the free livestream: https://bit.ly/ssa-2025

I didn’t realise there was anything other than the NY Mayor election in the US today 😅 ground.news/article/demo...

A bizarre headline this morning: It’s not NSW Labor that’s raiding illegal tobacco stores, it’s the NSW government. The NSW police don’t work for the Labor Party, they work for the public.

Quite proud of this. JCRC is calling for a National Climate Disaster Reserves in a new report: “Safer, Stronger, Sovereign: Preparing Australia for Climate Disasters” curtinrc.org/preparing-au...

This is extremely interesting ground.news/article/cana...

Their opposition to emerging growth sectors is a major reason that Australia's productivity collapsed starting 2012/13 with the election of Tony Abbott www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

New ASPI report on Australian institutional responses to a Taiwan Strait crisis. Authors include @mhar4.bsky.social and @nathanattrill.bsky.social www.aspi.org.au/report/austr...

Really hoping to hear from a Korea expert about the layers of message in gifting Trump a “replica gold crown from the ancient Korean kingdom Silla”. www.smh.com.au/world/asia/a...

The thing these guys don’t get about net zero is that it’s not just a race against physics, it’s a race against other countries to win the post carbon business opportunities. Clinging to a dying growth model means missing the emerging one www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

What a report. There’s so much packed in here. Great that Albo met 1:1 with Takaichi already, just 6 days into the job for her. Mirrors when he went to Japan about 6hrs after being sworn in. www.smh.com.au/world/asia/p...

A week later and journalists still think Rudd is the biggest story out of the Albo-Trump meeting. This quality of journalism is so embarrassing #insiders

Overwhelming endorsement of Australia's success in DC (led by Rudd & Albanese) from The Australian. I don't think I've ever seen so much praise for Labor from them. Sheridan even scored it 9/10 Paul Kelly even said the Libs need to stop watching Sky News!

Is it possible for a meeting with Trump to have gone too well? youtu.be/RK1OYmIsCNI?...

People asking how Rudd can be effective as Ambassador if Trump doesn’t like him… who cares *how* he’s managing it? What matters is that he very obviously IS effective

President Trump & Australian Prime Minister Albanese have signed a landmark Critical Minerals Framework, marking a major step toward advancing both nations’ ambitions for energy & minerals dominance. What is the Framework? CSIS critical minerals experts explain: www.csis.org/analysis/unp...

Impossible to overstate how effective Rudd has been as ambassador. If the only hit we take from the meeting with Trump is on Rudd personally, then that’s extremely well done on his part www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

This is great, but I really wish we were looking beyond just Sydney There are other cities in NSW that could be 3-10x bigger before they started getting crowded www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Rolls Royce recruiting trainees (including from Australia) to join the 5,500 person team working on the nuclear reactors for these subs www.smh.com.au/world/europe...

This is so funny. The Nationals aren’t sufficiently deranged for Barnaby Joyce. But it’ll never work with him at One Nation - he has too much high level experience to be a backbencher under Pauline Hanson www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

If he takes Matt Canavan with him, the Coalition might have a chance of becoming a serious organisation in time for the 2031 election www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

What the actual hell. If they want to become state owned propaganda, they should go work for the CCP www.smh.com.au/business/com...

Wow. Opposition to AUKUS is polling even less than the Libs primary vote www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I wonder if anyone will ask whether they’ve misunderstood anything about this war. Two days of peace & Hamas are publicly executing Palestinians on the street. I don’t know how you deal with people like this. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...