⛏️ Miner donations to minor parties The Minerals Council of Australia broke with its practice of funding only major political parties in the 2025 federal election, donating $125,000 to the Jacqui Lambie Network and $6,000 to One Nation. #politas #auspol ▶️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/expandi...

New #CoalWire 👉 Middle East war casts shadow over global energy markets and transition 👉 European Commission investigates Romania’s delayed coal closure plan; 👉 Bangladesh looks to boost #coal generation in response to war Full details 👇 globalenergymonitor.org/coalwire/coa...

Yesterday afternoon Tassal disclosed it started Florfenciol antibiotic treatments at 5 new sites, including extra salmon cages at its Sheppards, Great Taylors Bay (GTB) 1, GTB 2 & Redcliffs leases It has also begun treating diseased fish at its Roberts Point lease near Dover #politas #Tasmania

we said goodbye to jon @kudelka.bsky.social today. if you couldn’t be there or watch the livestream - it was a heartbreakingly beautiful celebration of a truly wonderful man. i loved hearing so many stories about him from so many people who loved him. how lucky we all were to know him ♥️

The funeral for Jon Kudelka was both beautiful and deeply sad - he loved our difficult birds and was a staunch protector of Tasmanian nature - he will be missed and is a tragically gone too soon 💙

💊 “Rather telling that the use of an antibiotic in a major water catchment only came to light because of a tip-off from a courageous member of the public, rather than from the independent regulator charged with protecting the public interest.” #politas ▶️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/comment...

Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Jon Kudelka helped me get my first cartooning job at The Mercury. He also showed me how to be quick-witted and fearless. I was in a constant state of joke-envy over his cartoons. I'm gonna miss that feeling, but more than that, I'm gonna miss my friend.

A few weeks ago, #salmon producer Huon Aquaculture used a controversial antibiotic to treat a disease outbreak at one of its hatcheries on the River Derwent. The Meadowbank Hatchery is in Hobart’s water catchment. #politas ▶️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/salmon-... Video: @bobburtonoz.bsky.social

With the last one, we asked Jon if he could create a start to finish video of how he created the cartoon Here it is #auspol #politas #cartooning

Vale Jon Kudelka @kudelka.bsky.social and deepest condolences to family and friends We were honoured to have Jon draw 3 cartoons for a series of articles we published on political donations reform in Tasmania #auspol #politas Thank you Jon

What a great loss and deepest condolences for family and friends on the passing of Jon Kudelka @kudelka.bsky.social #politas #auspol

Cartoon on Washington Post‘s mass layoffs

If four million pigs or chooks died on farms in a year, questions would be asked. Last year's death toll of Tas #salmon sparks calls for companies to be fined under animal welfare law, to avoid 2025 mortality rates becoming the "new normal". #politas #auspol tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/more-th...

spineless..

New: The background on the Adelaide Writers’ Week debacle

Louise Adler goes out with a bang

It is to Canada's shame we have not spoken out or supported a Canadian judge being sanctioned by the US Her life is frozen. She cannot use credit cards, travel, move money, or access email. This is not sustainable www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

🚢 NEW TRACKER: #LNG doesn’t just move through pipelines on land — it moves across oceans. For the first time, GEM is tracking LNG carriers worldwide in its new LNG Carrier Tracker, developed w/Solutions for Our Climate. 🔗 Explore the tracker: globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

Phenomenal photos. Photojournalists are amazing people.

After a bushfire exposed an open-air waste dump containing asbestos at a Tasmanian iron ore plant, it was quietly buried without informing residents. The Environment Protection Authority warned the company about health risks, but not the public. #politas ▶️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/covered...

The labour of love breathing life back into palawa kani – the lost language of Lutruwita #politas share.google/Qmr4zlymtm3z...

I think award season is now over. Mean Streak just won the Walkley Book Award to cap it off and I’m so thankful. Buy or borrow, the story is more fucked up than you think.

Quick explainer on some of the main features of the new nature laws, noting some details remain to be seen

BREAKING A Turkish court on Thursday acquitted four journalists, including AFP photographer Yasin Akgul, who were on trial over mass demonstrations in Istanbul in March. The four were arrested several days into the wave of protest sparked by the arrest of Istanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu

Today the Australian Financial Review published a single-source article on a Gina Rinehart speech bagging BHP & Rio Tinto, #climate action etc and not even 2 of Australia's biggest mining companies - let alone anyone else - gets a right of reply A really low-grade puff piece #auspol

Latest for @mongabay.com w. @andyball.bsky.social & @vantha.bsky.social uncovers a gold mine has poisoned the O'Ta Bouk River in Virachey National Park. Water, soil & fish from the river are contaminated, sickening the Indigenous communities downstream who depend on the river for everything.

#Tasmania's EPA fined Tassal $4040 for licence condition breaches at its Triabunna #salmon processing plant + EPA issued 6 warning notices to Tassal over other breaches at the plant & the Okehampton & Soldiers Point leases #politas #auspol Full details 👇 tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/mining-...

🏭 Tas EPA has banned the use of waste from a manganese smelter outside the Bell Bay industrial area after 9000t were used for landfill without approval. Another 8000t of slag have gone to 10 more sites, but the locations have not been made public. #politas ▶️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/epa-rev...

Mining company Greenwing Resources had the most environmental licence breaches in Tasmania during 2024-25, says the EPA’s annual report. Tassal and Cadbury also ranked high on the list of companies fined or issued warning notices. #politas ➡️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/mining-...

The quolls have strolled. Please help the Menzies Institute find out why. pointtopinnacle2025.grassrootz.com/menzies-inst...

Reissued with correct link ‪New #CoalWire: 👉 Legal challenge against Saskatchewan’s #coal plan; 👉 Chinese power sector emissions remain flat; 👉 South African energy minister urges coal industry to speak up 👇 globalenergymonitor.org/coalwire/coa...

New #CoalWire: 👉 Legal challenge against Saskatchewan’s #coal plan; 👉 Chinese power sector emissions remain flat; 👉 South African energy minister urges coal industry to speak up 👇 globalenergymonitor.org/coalwire/coa...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Ogoni Nine who were executed by the Nigerian military government in November 1995 after campaigning against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta. @amnesty.org calls for the Ogoni Nine to be fully exonerated. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Another eight cormorants have been found dead at a #salmon farm in #Tasmania. The wildlife toll at one lease of 43 birds and two seals in 2025 far exceeds the maximum limit set by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council of nine deaths over two years. #politas ▶️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/tasmani...

New #CoalWire 👉 China’s overseas #coal plant spree slows; 👉 Japanese utility accelerates coal plant closure; 👉 Coal ships identified as major threat to endangered Indonesian dolphin 👇 globalenergymonitor.org/coalwire/coa...

A beautiful story. The best of people and the best of community www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Pennsylvania natural gas producer CNX Resources Corporation has sued Capital & Main for defamation over the news organization’s reporting on the health risks of the company’s operations. Capital & Main stands by its reporting and vows to fight the suit. capitalandmain.com/pennsylvania...

New from me: News Corp successfuly lobbied for the teen social media ban on the grounds of "protecting kids mental health". Yet it has been bullying an 11-year-old child, exposing her to an audience of 400,000+ for ridicule and abuse. It does this often. Other mainstream media outlets do too.

Imagine introducing laws to protect kids from how toxic social media is and... thanking News Corp for helping? Every media outlet that uses social media as a distribution channel actively shapes the culture of those platforms. These things are not separate. www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/n...

New #CoalWire: 👉 Morocco sets 2040 #coal end date 👉 Saskatchewan says extending life of coal plants is a ‘bridge’ to #nuclear 👉 Mongolian political turmoil after change on mineral royalty rates 👇 globalenergymonitor.org/coalwire/coa...

Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest photographs. #photojournalism #photography

Tasmania's Integrity Commission has a code of conduct that bans former parliamentary secretaries and ministers from lobbying on matters they dealt with in the year before they left office. Now an ex-MP turned lobbyist sparks call for a new law. #politas tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/ex-libe...

New data from our Global #CoalPlant Tracker is out. A few key trends: 📉 Countries w/coal power under dev't hit a record low — only 33 remain since the Paris Agreement. 📉 New proposals fell below 2 GW in Q3 2025 — 85% below recent averages. Explore the data ⤵️ globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...

New #CoalWire 👉 Kenyan court blocks #coal plant 👉 Another US coal auction scrapped 👉 Venezuelan exports suspended 👉 Report finds Indonesian #nickel boom comes at a cost 👉 Subsidence hits villages near Bangladesh underground coal mine 👇 globalenergymonitor.org/coalwire/coa...

Unauthorised earthworks and land clearing by a cement company in northern Tasmania has damaged the known habitat of endangered freshwater crayfish and snails, smothering creek beds with silt. #politas tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/cement-...

New #CoalWire: 👉 Russian #coal losses mount 👉 US coal auction postponed 👉 Bank of England flags financial risks of AI 👉 Glencore hit with 3-year ban by Taiwan utility 👉 Mongolian court finds 88 guilty in coal cases 👇 globalenergymonitor.org/coalwire/coa...