Watch this. I strive to be this clear and effective. Best line — “A temper tantrum disguised as an ideology.”

nb.australiainstitute.org.au/phase-out-fo... Phase Out Fossil Fuels

One upside to the present moment is a revival in protest songs.

Priorities. My @smh @theage cartoon.

All illegal tobacconists/vaoe shops are rented. All their landlords know they are complicit in illegal trading. Qld now legislates to make it a crime if they do not report these tenants to Health Dept. This in addition to massive on-the-spot fines, seizures, closure. Way to go. Other states pls note

This is a great piece - indeed the equivalent of failure of gun reform in the US.

A point which I never see raised is that the cost of the stadium would be borne by all taxpayers, whereas the profits and economic benefits would accrue to businesses catering to the resulting traffic, and the AFL. Seems like a massive expenditure of public money to benefit the private sector.

If Trump doesn't raise his threatening abuse of Australian journalist @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social when he meets Albanese, then Albanese must. And he must defend Lyons. This ugly authoritarian behaviour by Trump proves how far our two country's values are diverging.

Gambling lobby’s sponsorship of Australian parliament’s sports club condemned by crossbench MPs www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #publichealth

"Since discovering oil in the 1960s, Norway has had to reconcile its environmental ambitions with the sometimes uncomfortable fact that oil and gas have made it enormously wealthy" www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Among so many other things, Robert Redford’s sad passing manages to remind us that there was a time when the Washington Post was respected and credible.

“I can’t stress enough the number of variables that just aren’t included. This is a minimum cost,” – Richard Denniss at estimates re National Climate Risk Assessment. “What you see in that report is the best-case scenario.” via @themandarin.bsky.social ▶️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/devasta...

The Albanese Govt thinks providing Pacific island nations with funds to address the impacts of Climate Change (incl. sea level rises) somehow excuses our profiteering from causing the catastrophe by our fossil fuel sales. It's such an insulting colonialist altitude. #auspol #ClimateChange

Union members at the ABC and across the media industry stand with John Lyons and reject the US President’s unfounded attacks on our colleague. #MEAAmedia

BREAKING: At least 45 Palestinians have been killed across Gaza today by Israeli attacks while three people died of starvation in the besieged enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n14xy9

Change is happening. Recent good news includes: The Museum of Economic Botany in South Australia isn’t named after Santos anymore The Newcastle Writers Festival is no longer sponsored by Port Waratah Coal. We will thrive without them.

The gambling issue is a perfect illustration of how our political system is - far from broken - working perfectly for the vested interests it serves. @TimCostello @SatPaper 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Disgraceful. No govt that actually cares about climate change would do this. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Read Mean Streak by @squigglyrick.bsky.social It is a great and detailed account of the #Robodebt debacle.

Islamophobia special envoy Aftab Malik gets emotional as he speaks about some recent Islamophobic incidents in Australia “A man told a Muslim couple that he would love to kill their 3 children” Where has media been on this? Silence. #Abc

Labor has just blown any enviro credentials they may've had by approving final step in the biggest new fossil fuel project in the Southern Hemisphere. A betrayal & disastrous for the future of our 🌎. We can't protect our planet while we are digging and burning new fossil fuels.

It’s easy to Google your local MP contact details. A polite e mail, brief, to the point, why we object to AUKUS, we can all do this. Let them know we don’t want it. #AusPol

Sign the petition calling for a National Firearms Register – a reform first pledged in 1996 that is critical to preventing future tragedies in Australia. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/australia_ne...

On the anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, I am posting the cartoon which was my response to the chest-beating nationalistic rhetoric immediately used by George W Bush to stir up support for a military response. The editor at the time would not publish it.

It's not coming as a massive air assault against Warsaw and Berlin followed by thousands of tanks. Instead it's creeping upon Europe in small steps. Each step small enough to fall under the threshold for a military respons. Slowly, slowly we are crawling towards an all out war in Europe.

His father and his uncle were literally assassinated... by people with guns... in the 1960s.

“Loneliness and isolation can lead to: 29% increased risk of heart disease; 32% increased risk of stroke; 50% increased risk of developing dementia among older adults; and 60% increased risk of premature death.” Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities

Mainstream media can't resist the "Succession" angle. @theklaxon.bsky.social gives us the real story: "we can look forward to more coverage denying the need to urgently act on climate change, more distortion of important issues and more support for assaults on democracy by the Trump administration"

From Drummond Dental, who immediately fired neo-Nazi and National Socialist Network member Ian Lomax:

The past is prologue, the trend inexorably grim. Here's the story since 1970 & where we are now. If this doesn't make us think, nothing will. How can this be ignored by anyone in tourism, agriculture or human, animal, plant or ecosystem (land & marine)health. climate.copernicus.eu/graphics-gal...

Source: www.reddit.com/r/COVID19pos...

If an organisation that collaborated with the Nazis can see it and say it, why can’t our government? Barbarity. #AusPol

Feels impossible to concentrate on domestic Australian politics given what is happening in Gaza (we have now allowed irreversible damage from malnutrition to occur, as well as the intensifying slaughter of starving civilians) FWIW the blog is running. live.australiainstitute.org.au

I remember Robert Hughes commenting on WW1 and postulating that all of the potential great artists from the UK and Germany to match Picasso etc. probably perished on the battlefied. Now thinking of all the potential great Palestinian artists, scientists, peace activists etc. slaughtered by Israel

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

Evil just for the sake of being evil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is timely as the working group for the 10-year update of @racsurgeons.bsky.social Operate With Respect gets under way. If we talk about #TheStandardWeWalkPast we also need to look at what forces people to 'walk past'. Where's the #PsychologicalSafety- and ACTUAL safety- to speak up? 🤔

Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.

And in shocking news, all the transphobes who are all about "protecting women sports" are not supporting them.

Demoted Liberal Jane Hume tells Sky News she’s not concerned about the disastrous Newspoll results for the LNP bcoz she says it’s “Not unusual for a New Opposition to be well behind in the polls!” Sky News banner begs to differ, Hume, 40yr low🤣🤦‍♂️ #auspol

Israeli forces killed at least 115 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, most while waiting for food, in one of the deadliest aid-related incidents since May aje.io/phqwl6

I'm trying to think of the last time a politician made me belly laugh and I'm honestly not sure it ever happened. He's magnificent.

Another brilliant thread!

Join the dots. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social (both newly arrived to Bluesky)

The full #SundayShot interview is here: @davemilbo.bsky.social & @anthonyklan.bsky.social unpack the $50k Advance scandal engulfing Segal. Detail and dissection of the evasion tactics and Labor's consequential predicament is covered in this excellent interview. 2/2 www.youtube.com/live/QNsy_o6...

Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-astronom...

Thanks @jennaprice.bsky.social

Prime Minister you must act! Declare the SA algal bloom a National Emergency so communities and researchers can get the resources and help they need. And end the new fossil fuel projects that are driving these heatwaves – starting by revoking the North West Shelf approval!