“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks” Just contemplate that sentence. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Working on climate change is skipping like a stone over sentences like "A new study analysing 49 years of data from 20 sites indicated carbon is being emitted because trees are dying and decaying faster than they can be replaced." every day while people with power do everything to make it worse.

The role of PR agencies in delaying climate action is increasingly being recognised by academics. theconversation.com/pr-firms-are...

Reminder: Australia's only emissions reduction legislation - the safeguard mechanism - allows for unlimited use of offsets instead of requiring genuine cuts from polluters

A reminder.

what a shabby, small town secret society Australia's ruling class are.

‘When Klein scolds that "we have to live here with each other" he is making a statement about who it is he is getting ready to live with and who he is getting ready to live without, and… is ignoring the fact that when it comes to supremacists, all of us have been living with them already all along.’

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

What an incredible act of cowardice by the National Press Club. WTF.

Every single Democrat needs to say that. Every single one.

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

This is a truly insane statistic for any country, let alone one that has not been a warzone for decades.

Big Oil and Gas has always been the permanent part of the government, the bit that we don’t get to vote out, the approvers or vetoers of the laws, immune from the mere citizenry, bereft of all virtues and responsibilities except to the insatiable appetites of child -devouring Mammon.

“Let’s hope that the present regime doesn’t say, OK, we’re only going to make movies about this… we’re going to clamp down on streaming… Authoritarianism is a very frightening concept when it comes to the arts. But… the curiosity is still there… You can’t kill that. Artists will always find a way.”

If MUP can't keep Meanjin running for "financial" reasons but the property is not for sale, which would clear the liability from their balance sheet, there is no "financial" issue. Either they're killing it, or the plan is to refloat it later -- without its current editorial leadership.

If Melbourne University Publishing doesn’t want to keep publishing Meanjin, they should hand over the journal to someone worthy of the responsibility. Me in The Conversation theconversation.com/the-decision...

So many unanswered questions posed in this excellent piece on the Meanjin closure. eg. -Why the sudden irreversible decision? -Why didn't they try to save it (community, donor drives etc)? -Why the secrecy? -Why use the financial viability argument now? As if the v wealthy UniMelb can't afford it.

Axing teaching staff and beloved cultural institutions to fund consultants and marketing. Australia’s university sector, everybody.

ABC news angle: The Business Council warns a 2035 emissions reduction target of 70+% could lead to loss of $100+m in exports. But... they're fossil fuel exports. A problem. We're committed to losing - and replacing - them. BCA supports this, right? Q is when. Benefits of action? Not modelled.

This is what regulatory capture looks like. It is a form of ubercorruption so widespread and entrenched in Australia that most folk in biz & politics just see it as normal. NSW EPA buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Re: Bob Katter's violent threats against a journalist & support of a white nationalist rally, I wrote this back in 2022. "When the meme-versions of conservative politicians become more ubiquitous than the far less funny reality, it clears a path for them to do even more damage." #auspol

I often think about this letter to the New Statesman. It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it. #PoliticsLive

cookers are at the nazi rally in adelaide

Few technologies have been met with such a barrage of misinformation as heat pumps have. @carbonbrief.org just dropped a brand-new version of my heat pump myths factcheck. Have a look here 👇 interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...

The media blamed pro-Palestine protestors for a spate of high-profile anti-semitic attacks. How many of those are now attributed to hired criminals, with no connection to the protest movement? Just about all of them. Great stuff from @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social www.lamestream.com.au/the-media-bl...

From December, Australians are likely to lose access to Bluesky due to incoming age verification laws. The good news though is the kiddies will still be able to access all the Nazi and extremist content they want on Roblox, which is not subject to the e-safety commissioner's "protect kids" laws.

'Changes in forest carrying capacity have important implications. As carrying capacity decreases, forests can shift from absorbing to releasing carbon.'

Australia's age assurance laws are due to start in December. They are similar to the Mississippi laws as they require platforms to verify the age of all users. Are Australians on the verge of losing access to Bluesky?

Who cares! This person is a genocidal lunatic, why are they regularly on the radio and leading news websites

AI will destroy humanity so we must eugenics our way to smarter babies who will then save us from AI? It’s really time to stop listening to these people www.wsj.com/us-news/sili...

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City. "He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent." It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

I've spent 20 years trying to get people working in advocacy to understand this.

Pretty much the History of Australia since 1788 in 4 bullet points.

Increasingly looking like a complete stall in government. Terrifyingly unspoken about. #auspol

Is this the first (supposed) war in all of history where a belligerent has killed more humanitarian aid workers than it has lost troops killed? That's 500 aid workers killed vs 450 IDF.

Labor asks Dracula to design universal blood donor system as PM eyes political legacy www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Possibly the most Gold Coast suggestion ever.

In a crowded field, manufactured generational conflict must be the easiest commentary to produce. There's absolutely no tendency or trait you can't meaninglessly ascribe to someone's age group

EXCLUSIVE: "I saw Goody Mamdani with the Devil." Salem citizens speak out about Satan's right-hand man, Zohran.

Welp, the 'enough is enough' moment for the media on Gaza was good while it lasted. Glad everyone got to feel good by doing some hand-wringing about starving children! Hope you got it out of your system, because that's also not allowed now and is hamas propaganda.

This really is appalling journalism. There is no news merit in just publishing awful, racist tweets posted by people with tiny followings. But when it’s framed in a way to defend Segal’s joke of an anti-semitism review, The Age decides they warrant prominence www.smh.com.au/national/onl...

The Big Beautiful Bill is known for taking from millions to give to the rich, but don't overlook one of its acts of charity: Giving $18 billion more to Big Oil, which already gets $7 trillion a year in subsidies 🎁 link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This piece by @timinclimate.bsky.social is a complete banger. I have really never ever read such a comprehensive analysis of Australia's fossil export emissions like this, it is something else. Go read the whole thing now --->>> timinclimate.medium.com/australia-em...

Wow. Incredible new interactive tool showing major methane emissions from fossil-fuel extraction around the world over past 12 months. Striking how intense the hotspots are from, say, COP29 hosts Azerbaijan. And Russia, China, US and India. via @oceanterra.org and @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it