Depends on what you call a catastrophe, but we crossed that line a few years back. e.g. Species extinctions. Every win in this fight will make things less shit though, so the sooner and harder we eliminate fossil fuels, their media backers, their armies of economists and journalists, the better.

Climate warming "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘮 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘭 𝘧𝘶𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘢 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦" 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

THE WORLD'S LARGEST MASS GRAVE Australia did nothing to prevent GENOCIDE in Gaza - in fact we provided and still provide, military aid to Israel WE ARE COMPLICIT johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

In Qld, Miles was the best example of a ‘greater good’ leader I’ve seen in decades

I’m too young for Whitlam, my family were very Labor working class and my first political memories are Hawke. We were very much a Hawke family. My dad slipped toward Hanson in the 90s for a short period, but came to his senses and now thinks she’s a dickhead. He married an ultra Liberal woman 🤔

I was absolutely shocked. It was my first time voting. Hated Fraser et al for a long long time. Yet the vote didn’t fit with the way Kerr was treated until his death. He was savaged wherever he went. #TheDismissal

Not all of us trusted the msm back then.

I was 16 and not very interested in politics but I do remember the narrative from the media, that Kerr had no choice and that it was in Australia's best interest. We used to trust the media back then, which was naive of us.

My first ever vote was for Whitlam, I remember clearly our hope of a better fairer Australia, and that’s what he gave us. I was a proud Aussie for a while. Outraged by the dismissal, I saw it for what it was, a political assassination because he put Australian’s first.

I was a kid when Whitlam was sacked. My folks were among the middle class who believed the propaganda and voted Fraser. As a kid it felt wrong. As an adult I know it was wrong. This incident, fifty years ago today, should continue to inform us on how Australian politics really works. #AusPol

I’ve had many conversations with my 15yo (very politically astute) about conscription and whether it would be done again - more so if people would fight back harder

Seems the only political promise the LNP make is to keep Australia under The Murdochracy's colonial thumb on the promise that one day they will (insert dream here) just not today because, although Australia is a very wealthy country, it's too poor to fund nice things for the proletariat.

I had just been called up for Compulsory National Service when Gough was elected and stopped it. The liberals still want Conscription, beware young voters.

dear people, the nuremberg trials happened because the nazis and their allies were utterly defeated militarily that is never going to happen to the US please stop waving ‘nuremberg’ or ‘the hague’ at 🇺🇸’s criminal civilian and military regime odds are none of these people will ever be punished

Showing they have absolutely no understanding at all of what late term abortions are, why they are generally performed, and how incredibly devastating any child loss is How ignorant and horrible do you have to be to weigh in on an issue with so little understanding and compassion

Fund fundamental research for the best possible future. 👇👇👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.

The duopoly just joined forces in the Senate to vote down an #AUKUS inquiry. Never mind the political, technical & management risks associated with the program, or the $365B price tag - the two major parties are happy sleepwalking with your national security and money. #auspol

Gina

They are the party of cookers.

They are the brains in the zombie that is the coalition. #auspol

They're not even effective lies, they're easily checked. So either they expect us to just trust what they say or it's just lip service and they really don't care what we think. Considering how this has all been broadcast pretty much live on social media for over 2 years now it must be the latter.

And the widening gaps between the haves and have-nots

Every single day a significant news story of capitalism destroying society and the earth.

Or not even bothering to lie: "We're going to do this, and you can't stop us."

Keep voting for the duopoly but surprised by their actions? The Lucky Country...full of clever Australians. #Australia

The lights have gone out in the former institutions of enlightenment. Tertiary education is now just a commodity like laundry detergent.

By the end of the reign of Joh Bjeilke Peterson and/or Can Do Campbell Newman, so many people were radicalised there were bugger all conservatives left. #qldpol

Seems as though ANU made some very poor decisions here. 225 shares valued at $138,086 bought in Elbit Systems on 31 March. Subsequently sold on 5 May. That's very fast. Wonder if they were "encouraged" to sell before anyone became aware of their transgression.

How it must feel to people whose lives it really affects!

Also, it’s exhausting.

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Nice line from Rachel Withers: "Insiders say there will be a leadership challenge in the new year either way, with conservatives still deciding which generic-looking A-hole (Angus or Andrew) to back."

Prof Deborah Lupton "The hardest thing for me these days about wearing a mask is that you make others around you feel uncomfortable. You are reminding them that C19 is still a risk and that they should be doing the same. Clinicians and public health experts in particular do not like this reminder"

👇👇 So sad when even RACGP jump on the bandwagon of unscientific covid minimisation (yes, I know they’ve been there for ages)

💯👇 Nothing has been done to stop it happening again. And my fear is that #AusPol has become demonstrably more immoral, unethical and bought than in 1975

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Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

"It's likely the case that we need to give police more legislated powers to stop this kind of naked hatred and racism on Sydney streets" No, Premier. You need to direct the police to stop neo-Nazis. Instead of suppressing peaceful protests against genocide. #nswpol www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Assuming you have them on your ballot. I’m stuck with LNP, Labor and a cacophony of right wing nut jobs in my electorate. Oh to have a centrist left leaning indi.

I would like Labor to know that I have begun thinking about deploying my preferences towards independents, greens, Teal-like groups. Don't know who they'll be this far out but I will be discussing this at coffee shops, on public transport, and anywhere two or more are gathered. Advice will be sought

Kerry O'Brien has real-time thinking skills - not just a mike and a script

And here is their YouTube channel with the 10 hours of streaming!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wnI...

I've since discovered there was a live-streamed event at the Museum of Democracy. Here is the program moadoph.gov.au/visit/whats-...

@strangerous.bsky.social where is this clip from please?

Kerry O’Brien says the fact the Teals are around shows that “more people are thinking about their vote” “I mean, that didn’t happen by accident. That’s people actually stopping to think” #auspol

Peta Credlin left red-faced after claiming what Liberals must do on climate policy, is get away from a “timeframe” for reducing emissions coz a timeframe is apparently “killing Labor” & “driving up prices” & “sending businesses offshore!”😱 Clennell “The Nats have a timeframe”🤣 #SkyAfterDark