Peacefully protesting isn’t a crime, war crimes are. #Auspol

😢😢😢 #auspol www.smh.com.au/goodfood/doz...

Excellent primer on the Atlas Network and it’s impact on Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Time to end AUKUS, remove US bases and chart an independent, principled and safe defence and foreign policy for Australia. Cringing in fear under the tattered US umbrella while it’s being used to beat up US allies is no longer a credible plan.

Transforming lives, from the bottom up, with no need for imperial wars.

Hey @albomp.bsky.social , are we “all the way with DJT”? Because I think we Australians are going to need a little reassurance from you that this is NOT your idea of a safe alliance either, and that being blu-tacked to a lunatic will not end well for us. Thanks for your consideration.

Donny Roger

Some of the most useful insights into what’s happening to America are coming from political analysts outside the United States. Here’s a particularly lucid essay that I think you should read. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-true-catastrophe-of-trump

A voice of quiet reflection 🙏👇 #auspol

Very insightful writing. “This is no longer the rusted-on National Party voter. It is a new product category: the insecure traditionalist male. Call it the dislocated patriarch, the status casualty, the affable bloke refashioned as a grievance consumer.” #auspol theaimn.net/we-need-to-t...

"If we're really concerned about criminals in this country, leaving the ECHR would be exactly like Brexit, in that it would have the opposite effect" - European Movement UK Chair, Dr Mike Galsworthy, on Keir Starmer's calls to reform the ECHR.

This is exactly why we need legislation in Australia. AI will be used for a whole range of life impacting decisions - insurance claims, NDIS packages, mortgage approvals, job applications. Letting that rip without regulations (and therefore accountability) is a recipe for disaster. #auspol

Hang on, Starmer is implying the Supreme Court ruling *that emissions from burning fossil fuels should be considered as part of the impact of drilling* is 'misguided'? It's not fluffy do-goodery, it's based on hard, inconvenient facts. We need environmental protections to protect the irreplaceable.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

On the driest inhabited continent on the planet… #auspol

When it comes to money-losing tech revolutionaries, OpenAI is in a class by itself. (via Deutsche) @weisenthal.bsky.social

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers. Anyway, about China ...

This is an inexplicably poor decision. As AI pioneer Yoshua Benigo has pointed out AI is less regulated than a sandwich. Massive global impact but just waived through. 🤦🏻‍♀️ #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“It is most likely now that Joyce will run for One Nation in the Senate. The money is good and the role is unburdened by expectations of competence. Past candidates have been car thieves and conspiracy theorists.” #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22189/...

"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals." An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.

NYC pension funds could set a global precedent by ditching BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, on climate grounds. Meanwhile in Australia, our largest super fund #AustralianSuper has thrown its support behind the fossil fuel expansion plans of climate wreckers like Woodside & Whitehaven 😡

Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans. Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Why are we sacking scientists who are so essential to understanding our climate crisis? To understanding the horrific algae bloom assaulting SAs beaches? The changes in our oceans? Madness. www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...

Congratulations @greens.org.au & @larissawaters.bsky.social for extracting important concessions from @australianlabor.bsky.social on new environmental protections. Far from perfect legislation & an indictment of contemporary ALP that it puts business interests before people & environment #auspol

Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!

JFC. Three gigawatts of fossil-fuelled power for a new Amazon data centre @beninskeep.bsky.social points out the new gas plant could produce 4x the harmful climate pollution as the coal plant it's replacing 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 www.utilitydive.com/news/nisourc...

7.2 runs an over is insane #Ashes

These T20 Test matches take a bit of getting used to #Ashes

Australia, Canada and India have just agreed on a new trilateral partnership. 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇮🇳 Together we will find new ways to cooperate on technology, and innovation in areas like clean energy, critical minerals and Ai. I look forward to working with you, for the mutual benefit of our nations.

"10% of our revenue will come from criminals paying us for access to our customers" is an astonishing thing to put in writing

Read this if you are worried or angry about Climate: "This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri... www.ft.com/content/e517...

Waking up to discover that in both cricket and COP Summits it is indeed the hope that kills you.

I want A.I. to do my admin and laundry while I write and illustrate books. I don't want A.I. to write and illustrate books while I do my admin and laundry.

Your periodic reminder that climate change means levels of migration will increase sharply in the coming years and we either find an effective and humane way to manage that or we invite ever more chaos and suffering.

A big move in the right direction by world leaders. See CSSN Director @timmonsroberts.bsky.social quoted in @earthjournalism.bsky.social: earthjournalism.net/stories/coun...

Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵

“Institute of Public Affairs’ appearance Senate inquiry on information integrity climate & energy 12/11/25 devolved into combative, fiery replay of Australia’s old climate wars. Self-congratulation for helping to kill the Coalition’s commitment to net zero.” reneweconomy.com.au/dead-man-wal....

Really interesting article on the massive geopolitical shifts inherent in decarbonisation as the US vacates the field. Meanwhile the LNP busy abandoning net zero which would deny Australians being a constructive participant in the transition. 🤦🏻‍♀️ #climatechange #auspol

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

“It takes a heroic effort to make Scott Morrison look credible on climate change, but somehow Ley has managed it. The decision made this week will be the defining embarrassment of her leadership” A Faustian pact with the fossil fuel industry. #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22072/...

Whilst it’s easy to scoff at this, I think sadly we are in for The Voice 2.0 on climate science denial. Watch as Advance, CPAC and the IPA swing their money behind a mendacious campaign to derail the energy transition. This will be an ethical test for corporate Australia to hold firm. #auspol

Liberals landing on Net Zero. The Age

Financed Deforestation “Australia is a global deforestation hotspot - & Aus banks are funding destruction. www.acf.org.au/news/finance...

The premier needs to give the police new powers to *checks notes* actually use the powers they already have, to prevent the kind of protest that took place on Sunday.

Workers tend to herbs grown beneath solar panels in a photovoltaic plantation in Lihua, Lianyungang, Jiangsu. An aerial view shows residential buildings with roof-mounted photovoltaic-solar panels in Yinchuan, Great photos of China's record smashing solar boom www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..." China's oil demand is entering structural decline.