One Nation winning a whole seat to themselves! What ever will we do? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Do yourself a favour! Learn about the toolkit for decarbonized sovereignty We could have chaotic deindustrialization aka "unscheduled rapid disassembly" Or strategic, coordinated, transformative "state-led electrification for energy sovereignty", & a life-improving "green social bargain" for all!

Funding for on-ground biodiversity programs was a mere 0.06% of the Federal budget for 2025-2026 Minister Watt's $500M for "unlocking major projects & helping proponents get a faster yes or a faster no" is MORE than the $474M spending on "on-ground biodiversity programs" for all of 2025-2026‼️

BREAKING: Minister for Environment finally secures budget funding for Environment portfolio Unfortunately for the environment it's $500M for "unlocking major projects and helping proponents get a faster yes or a faster no" Recall, NONE of the 6 National Environmental Standards have been finalised

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

No one in govt is talking about before the budget, but just FYI, the level of Jobseeker is now 42% below the poverty line - worse than it was during the Howard years... live.thepoint.com.au

Who is going to tell them? Stay in school, kids.

It's so disgusting and wrong how acceptable Islamophobia is. Media is full of it and it's never questioned, never seen as damaging to social cohesion.

Completely missed this while focused on Minerals Council's $13 million demand for their AI tool "Tuesday's federal budget will include a $105.9 million commitment over four years to develop an AI tool to guide proponents and share environmental data, helping more projects get approved."

#auspol political journalism is depressingly shallow. 'Analysis' of One Notion rarely mentions: - how Gina Rinehart, and other big donors, shifted their support from Coalition to PHON [apart from clickbait stories on the "sexy plane"] - the connection to Trump, MAGA & Atlas Network. Exhibit A:

Raf on ABC 774 asking if the rise of the far right, deeply racist and divisive One Nation, is exciting or terrifying? Raf, if you don’t know the answer to your ‘question’ already you’re a fool and part of the problem. Disgusted. Some in the media learn little from history.

🧵 A good read with lessons Australia's ruling parties will continue to refuse to learn...

🎶 Pauline brings all the racists to the yard 🎶 “…Coalition in turmoil, with leadership forced to consider forming an alliance with the rightwing party and MPs speaking openly about the possibility of defecting.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/post/2026/05...

Fri 8 May We ask pple to HONK FOR CLIMATE ACTION so Josh Burns' no appt-no entry office knows we're STILL here opposing the @albomp.bsky.social govt's 👎Approval of WoodCIDE's North West Shelf Extension 👎Approval of 32 other Coal+Gas projs 👎Obscene Fossil Fuel subsidies 👎Gas profits protectn racket

"[C]orporations only exist because states allow them to. Which means that every power a corporation has was given to it by the state. Hawaii just took one of those powers off the list—starting next year, corporations in Hawaii can no longer spend money on state + local elections." #ShareGoodNewsToo

Great to see! Ireland's official Eurovision fan club is boycotting the competition due to apartheid Israel's participation. Eurovision fans know what's what, they won't go along with the artwashing of Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinians people. #BoycottEurovision

The Stop The Game Campaign has launched a letter calling on FAI not to play apartheid Israel in the Nations League fixtures. The letter is signed by Irish and international soccer figures, as well as others from the sports and arts worlds. 🧵1

Here's where Louis Mosley, the black-shirt wearing grandson of the black-shirt wearing fascist Oswald Mosley, who runs Palantir in the UK, says how and when they might use your medical data for "immigration enforcement" and, by logical extension, whatever other purposes became convenient.

Fri 8 May We ask pple to HONK FOR CLIMATE ACTION so Josh Burns' no appt-no entry office knows we're STILL here opposing the @albomp.bsky.social govt's 👎Approval of WoodCIDE's North West Shelf Extension 👎Approval of 32 other Coal+Gas projs 👎Obscene Fossil Fuel subsidies 👎Gas profits protectn racket

Civic orgs engaging & legitimising Pauline Hanson & OneNation reps may be congratulating themselves as PHON's ⭐ rises But as a queer, female, Asian, migrant scientist living on unceded Indigenous land, I ask you to stand against PHON's racism, Islamophobia, misogyny, hate-mongering & disinformation

We're getting urgent advice on whether this is a criminal offence. I know Labour's de facto policy is that whether inciting hatred is bad depends on who the incitement is against but we think human rights are universal.

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

Liberal & Nationals politicians experiencing the One Nation "wake-up call for conservative politics" & "thinking about their political future" are actively, consciously considering CHOOSING: RACISM ISLAMOPHOBIA TRANSPHOBIA MISOGYNY RAPE & DOMESTIC ABUSER APOLOGISTS ANTISEMITISM Receipts👇

4/ Ep3 The Making of One Nation: survive a scandal Jordan McSwiney: "It’s incomparable. I can’t really think of another political party that has such a sort of history of dysfunction and such high profile blowups." Companion intro to Ep3 theconversation.com/inside-one-n...

3/ Ep2 The Making of One Nation: define the enemy Ben Moffitt: "John Howard saw the threat coming from One Nation & took & mainstreamed a lot of the policies that Hanson had put up or at least the topics that she was putting up." Companion intro to Ep2 👉 theconversation.com/pauline-hans...

Meanwhile, mainstream media continue to give Hanson the easiest of runs. And [with few honourable exceptions] fail to investigate her corruption, Trump and Rinehart connections, plus are scared to use the accurate word "racist"* to describe her 'policies'. #auspol [*a common label 25 years ago]

Federal Budget time! Will the @albomp.bsky.social govt properly fund public goods like Aged care, the Arts, Child care, Education, Environment, Health, Dental, NDIS, Income Support, Science, Research, Decarbonization strategy❓ Or love up Big Biz & protect profits of the fossil fuel & Gas industry❓

If your organisation chooses to _publicly platform_ politicians and a party well-known for horrific racism, prejudice, bigotry, and being anti-science, anti-evidence and anti-expert, do you reflect on your choices and actions when their popularity and political success rise?

Finally home after a perilous quest 🎨 Sarah Graham

Trust in police has declined (2025 vs 2020) ABS General Social Survey 2025 www.abs.gov.au/statistics/p...

Don't miss this candid & extraordinarily 👀-opening conversation betw the redoubtable Nina Lakhani & Amy Westervelt on the historic Santa Marta conference They cover many topics (power structures, whose science? ISDS, human rights etc) that could (& should) each be their own detailed reported story

Everything you need to know about the #santamarta climate conference, what worked, what didn't, why the process needs to be radically different from other international climate dialogues, and how a human rights frame might get it there. From @ninalakhani.bsky.social drilled.media/news/santa-m...

Federal Budget time! Will the @albomp.bsky.social govt properly fund public goods like Aged care, the Arts, Child care, Education, Environment, Health, Dental, NDIS, Income Support, Science, Research, Decarbonization strategy❓ Or love up Big Biz & protect profits of the fossil fuel & Gas industry❓

The Canvas hack is truly terrifying and could have all kinds of knock-on effects. Student messages to professors can be particularly sensitive. @linkletter.org helps contextualize this: www.404media.co/the-biggest-...

As if working class and lower income people aren't the ones most affected by and aware of climate change?! Get out of here with this shit. The problem with the Democratic Party is they have no firm stance on *any* issues actually important to voters.

Smart countries learned the vital importance of mitigating vulnerability to fossil fuel dependency & planned a path to decarbonized sovereignty 👀 www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aga... Others are still sharing tired ideas that'll lock in further dependency & enrich the industry flogging it 🙄

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Actual quote from BP's new CEO: "We're heading in the right direction." We'll say it again: The fossil fuel industry literally depends on doing straight-up mass-murder.

Pretty disappointing to see @adamtooze.bsky.social posting that climate issues around data centre growth are just barely "real" and are verging on "fake" Me and many others have done a huge amount of work I think solidly demonstrating how real they are. Much more than.......whatever this graphic is

if you could do with some beauty and wonder...

Jeez, things are not great inside Google www.linkedin.com/posts/amshal...

Spain's Prime Minister awarded the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine with its highest civilian honour on Thursday for her work documenting atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

only silver lining is that One Nation has a spectacular track record of implosion and self-destruction www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

All I can say is👇

Kevin Bonham's blog reported that William Bowe & Ben Raue called Farrer for One Nation at 7.30pm & KB has called it at 7.46pm Wonder how migrants living in the electorate are feeling as the ABS' General Social Survey 2025 reports that "Support for cultural diversity is high but declining"

Really enjoying Matt's history of Instructure/Canvas, its tech partnerships and its investors with my early tea this morning, which puts this week's LMS disaster in the context of its rapid rise as an oligopolistic edtech platform theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/historyofc...

New paper on the influence Shell had in creating investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms #ISDS academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is spot on here, the Greens aren't splitting the left vote because this Labour party isn't left wing.

Proud to be representing DAMSHEG in the first ever climate case to reach the High Court of Australia, the country’s apex court. If you want to support our clients, here’s how: chuffed.org/project/aust...