Tathra sunrise

I’m sure few people in Melbourne realise how much the desal plant is used www.melbournewater.com.au/about-us/wha...

Severe cystitis, pneumonia or tooth decay could increase your risk of developing dementia over the next five to six years.

Cape Grim's 50-year air record reveals true scale of humans' impact on planet www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The standard you walk by is the standard you accept @albomp.bsky.social, so tell us this is ok; tell us this is an ally you respect. #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

It was this for me. By the time I left Twitter I'd begun to tense up just visiting it, and I was burned out by being condescending to the folks trying to be nasty to me. When I came here, I fully signed onto the "don't engage, just block" ethos and tried to model a better online version of myself.

Trump started an illegal war that has been a disaster and now wants the world to clean up his mess. www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Today we secured a Greens-led inquiry into taxing Australia’s gas that will report ahead of the May budget. This is a step in the right direction towards a minimum 25% tax on gas exports

As a side note; worldwide air pollution will probably drop, uptake of electric vehicles and public transport will increase.

CATL, BYD and Sungrow add $70bn in market value "Neil Beveridge, who leads Bernstein’s energy research, expects China, the world’s biggest oil importer, to double down on its plan to “electrify everything”." www.ft.com/content/b122...

Insurance becomes an indirect Carbon Tax, targeting those that aren’t responsible and can least afford the costs

I think this is the scariest thing I’ve read in today’s writing about male vs female behaviours. Because it’s now & future. It’s the precursor of more #DV, #sexualharassment, sexual abuse/ #rape, & eventually attempted murder, #femicide www.mamamia.com.au/manosphere-m...

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof. That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy. The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

Tonight's lineup. Hopefully some goals and then some changes for the 2nd half. Great to see Rule get the start.

"Lies and propaganda are being used to retrospectively justify this war." ICYMI, brilliant analysis from John Lyons. Many have noted what an asset he is to the ABC, when so many are parroting those lies. The ABC needs more journos able to speak truth to power. www.youtube.com/watch?v=isy6...

I’ve never seen queues for petrol on a Sunday night in Melbourne but it’s on

Yet again - how many times can I say it - every day that goes by with Group Ticket Voting still on the books in Victoria and no clarity that is will be removed is a disgrace. archive.is/wDTJ2 #springst

The people who destroyed the environment are the ones who should pay for it. Instead we're still giving them subsidies.

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

I'll take far more interest in the statements about Australian values being made by various Liberals today if they start adding explicit announcements that those values include preferential voting, fair elections and respect for the electoral process.

On Australia’s main grid last quarter, renewables and energy storage contributed more than 50% of supplied electricity for the first time. Is the renewable energy transition actually succeeding?

Time to revisit Rudd’s resource super profit tax @albomp.bsky.social AND to conduct an inquiry into the campaign against it. We, the people, own our (crown) resources - not a seedy cabal of multinationals…and weak politicians #auspol 👇

Here’s some roses for whoever may need them today.

Invasion Day, 2026

Sunflowers doing well. We kept a flower from last summer and after throwing some seed around, our garden is being taken over by 🌻

Concern is growing on Wall Street that Donald Trump's belligerence and belittlement of Europe could take some of the biggest buyers of US equities out of the market. There are signs that’s already beginning to happen.

The video is clear. Murder. Cowardly murder.

How the fuck do we live in a place where 60+ women are killed every year including 4 in just the past few days yet there’s no National Day of Mourning or prominent lapel pins or sobbing politician speeches or Special Envoy or Royal Commission or endless media commentary for THEM? #NewsCorpse

Men at Work's singer-songwriter Colin Hay is not happy "Down Under" is being used by "March for Australia" events to promote racism and xenophobia. He posted this 👇 on social media today. #auspol #racism #AusMusic 🎶

Hanson’s One Nation, now with its star grifter Barnaby Joyce, is once again demonstrating it’s a grievance harvester. The vultures of politics preying on tragedy and human misery #auspol

Goodbye 2025. Cape Paterson Second Surf

Paramedics used to get asked what was the worst thing they had seen. But I feel like that doesn’t happen anymore as awareness of mental health has improved.

"House prices rise but Melbourne shows a way to improve affordability" My column for #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/news/251203-...

I’m sure news that he will no longer be leader of the Victorian Liberals will come as a relief to Brad

Penny Wong accidentally saying the quiet bit out loud - for Labor the US relationship is more important than the Australian environment. Who do this lot think they work for?

What’s actually “disappointing” is the fact your party is responsible for funding these services and is choosing not to. Either fund these services or run them publicly. Don’t complain on Instagram about your own failure to do either of these things. Pathetic.

This decision by the Victorian government risks increased: - Motor accidents & fatalities - Agricultural & garden destruction - Disease transmission - Environmental harm & species extinctions - Harm to culturally significant sites All to appease the hunting lobby! www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Awesome to have voted out the party that loudly gives no shits about the environment and climate in favour of the part that quietly gives no shits about the environment and climate

I’ve been there for a lot of winning AFL teams’ victory songs over the years, but there’s always something particularly special about being there when a newly-crowned premiership team belts it out! #AFLCatsLions #aflgrandfinal2025

ABC’s John Lyons has slammed Israel for wiping out an average of 28 children in Gaza “Every Day. Week in, week out, month in, month out” Lyons “There are on avg. a classroom of Palestinian children in Gaza today, who this time tomorrow will be killed by an Israeli bomb”😳 #Abc

The Reserve Bank of Australia has joined the growing chorus of voices who say the federal government's 5% deposit scheme is short-sighted when it comes to controlling house prices. That's the RBA using Treasury's modelling to tell the government to reconsider its housing fix.

Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.

It’s about control, regardless of the harm that might come to the mother or child

Politicians shouldn't be able to control your vote. But in Victoria, their deals direct your upper house preferences, when voting above the line. Only in Victoria. Every other state and the Commonwealth has abolished group voting tickets which allow this. 1/2

I grew up in a Melbourne where houses didn’t need aircon, where a fan got you through the occasional hot day. That lifestyle was on tragic display during the 2009 heatwave.

Maybe a Leopard Orchid in my local park