Lovely write up of our @badvertising.bsky.social station takeover campaign in Creative Review

Academics and students fought for 5 years against research sponsorship at Monash University from oil and gas company Woodside. This week, we forced Australia’s largest university to abandon its greenwashing contract www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

On one🫱, @monashuniversity.bsky.social VC says,"It has been abundantly clear thru communications with our broader community[that] they expect us to work in alignment with our values” On other🫲, Monash&WoodCIDE remain "in discussions on opportunities for a future phase of the research partnership"🤔

The Woodside Monash Partnership is over...there's some concern this may be permuted into a situationship through continued Woodside funding of research BUT overall a strong message that taking fossil fuel funding is NOT aligned with sustainability.

Announced by us yesterday, and confirmed today thanks to the work of Senator @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social, Monash will end its partnership with #WoodsideEnergy. When they discuss changes in community expectations, we know what they mean; it’s all of you who joined us on this journey. Thanks to all!

I'm so delighted at HOW DELIGHTED people are that Monash Uni has dropped WoodCIDE People LOVE this corrective action against a land-, ocean-Indigenous culture- & planet-destroying fossil fuel corp and I hope mainstream media puts out a big, illustrated story on it soon

In advance of the likely abandonment of Net Zero by the Liberal Party I have some personal news. I will not be competing at any future Olympic Games. Noone thought I would be, nevertheless, big news.

The federal government only wanted to help South Australia with the algal bloom if it did not require new funding despite being briefed that an estimated 250k marine animals had been killed, new documents obtained through FOI reveal. New from me in @thepointau.bsky.social.

From @nteumonash.bsky.social... In Academic Board this week, Vice-Chancellor Sharon Pickering announced that Monash University will end its controversial partnership with fossil fuel giant Woodside Energy. Vice-Chancellor Pickering also said that the Woodside Building will eventually be renamed.

I’ve declined to give two seminars in the Woodside building so far. I’m glad a sensible decision to step away from fossil fuel interests has been made. It sends a message of hope to the next generations.

So proud to have been a part of this movement to @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social. However, the right is not over.

A massive congrats to @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social - absurd they have to work so hard to get the bare minimum

It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.

Climate scientists Ailie Gallant & Alex Dunne educate RWNJ Malcolm Roberts on science, & explain that “in the case of climate change there is not strong disagreement” among scientists. Roberts “There isn’t?” It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates

I compile a list of organisations sponsored by fossil fuel companies. I call them Chumps but ever so often a group comes along that is so obviously just a greenwashing front for the fossil fuel industry that I actually want to call them something else.

I suspected that the sponsorship between Volleyball Australia and Hancock Prospecting had come to an end...nice to see this confirmed in the the Guardian today. We can hit balls around on the sand without Gina! We can do all sport without Gina! www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...

Unfortunately "conservation" is a non-empty category on my list of fossil fuel sponsorships in Australia. www.chumpslist.org/chumps

Climate reporting deluged by high carbon adverts. “I urge every country to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies. And I urge news media and tech companies to stop taking fossil fuel advertising.” theecologist.org/2025/nov/08/...

Sunday night, time to relax. No, time to get furious after hearing about the sponsors of WA's recent Biodiversity Conference, which included Alcoa, Woodside and South 32. These destructive companies are the enemies of biodiversity and should be blacklisted. But instead...

🚨Breaking🚨 🕴️Just a few days ahead of #COP30, today, the #KickBigPollutersOut coalition uncovered that there are more than 5000 fossil fuel lobbyists attending the climate talks over the past four years. It's high time to #KickBigPollutersOut: www.theguardian.com/environment/... A 🧵

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... The report Roger Cook doesn’t want you to see. Gas is not the clean transition helping the world go renewable.

South Australia has announced a $17.5m fund to subsidise half the cost of new gas projects in the state - the same state that leads the country in renewables uptake. The decision has been welcomed by Australian Energy Producers.

I went as Coral bleaching for Halloween because it's pretty scary. There was originally no pun intended but I realised I couldn't make realistic coral (dead or alive) in the 90 minutes available. This isn't the first time I've used a half-arsed Halloween costume to make a point about climate change

💯👇 I tell students this all the time. We. Need. All. The. Things. Write what you want about climate change and mass extinction. Whatever moves you. Climate art should be varied and serve many roles. We do not need to gatekeep it.

I often see discussion about the "right" way to include climate themes in fiction. Advice includes: - Don't scare people TOO much - Focus on solutions - Characters have agency - Include local issues people can tackle personally - Hopeful ending IS A MUST My not very controversial opinion is...

Write & get everyone u know to✍️ Labor's EPBC reforms: 👎removed Minister's powers to revoke prev decisions (EPBC Reconsiderations bill) 👎NO climate trigger 👎NO fully independent EPA decision maker 👎bilateral agreements devolving Fed powers to states (bad idea) 👎allowing pay-to-destroy enviro offsets

Dry winter conditions have resulted in extra fuel reduction burns in regional Victoria ahead of the fire season. But some scientists are asking if fuel burns are the best way to reduce fire risk.

Last Friday I appeared before a Senate committee to talk about the Commonwealth's proposed changes to FOI laws @withmeaa.bsky.social, in my capacity as a working freelance journalist. The changes copy FOI regimes at the state level -- two hours later, one of those states hit me with a charge: /1

I went on Dani Vee's Words and Nerds podcast to talk about my book Music Camp. I said a few unconventional things for the world of kids books and also gave a BRAND NEW answer to the question "Why do you write?" danivee.com.au/764-dani-vee...

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation. And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Sure thing, David Pocock doesn't belong in the parliamentary sports club. Those nerds will definitely do better sport without him.

This is not the nerd revenge story I ordered. Of all the jocks in the world to kick out of a club you choose the good one. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I posted this on linkedin a few months ago to piss off some specific people but none of them bit the lure :(

>200 submissions to Australian Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy Look forward to having a read of subs from: @caadcoalition.bsky.social, @commsdeclare.bsky.social, @cssn.org, @drilledmedia.bsky.social, @ketanjoshi.co, @pennytangey.bsky.social & more!

I am very pleased to hear this. I will be writing and encouraging others to as well.

"some of the most effective undermining of environmental science has come from business leaders who say that their company is working alongside scientists [..] to solve climate problems ... PR consultants will create [..] sponsorships for their clients that make them look good" 👀 at you, Scitech👀

Wild how up to its 👁️balls Scitech is in fossil fuel & mining sponsorships Alcoa Foundation Digital Technologies Enrichment Chevron: Lighthouse Maths Mitsui Future Computing Program Rio Tinto Innovation Central Rio Tinto: DIY Science Kits Woodside: STEM Club;Karratha Integrated Digital Technologies

I had not seen this. What a disgrace. Talk about a captured state and a totally captured institution. Scitech needs to sever all links with toxic industries including all fossil fuel companies.

🤯 Scitech is neck deep in fossil fuel & mining sponsorship❗ Lighthouse Maths - Chevron Alcoa Foundation Digital Technologies Enrichment Mitsui Future Computing Program STEM Club - Woodside DIY Science Kits - Rio Tinto Rio Tinto Innovation Central Karratha Integrated Digital Technologies - Woodside

wtf "Sci"tech?

(good news at end) When elite netballers took a principled stand against sponsorship by Hancock Prospecting a few years ago Volleyball Australia had a public grovel about how they LOVED being sponsored by Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting and how great she is. volleyball.org.au/blog/stateme...

Scitech (WA Science Museum) is sponsored by a few fossil fuel companies. Including Woodside who provide "free" access to STEM club for kids. Free = access to educational opportunities in exchange for promoting Woodside. The cost to students is the loss of a liveable planet. Good deal kids?

I'm making a climate banner for a balcony on a busy Melbourne road. Suggestions, votes or feedback welcome. Ideas: No New Coal No New Gas No More Fossil Fuels End Coal and Gas Don't Cook the Planet with Gas Safe Futures need Forests not Fossil Fuels

Newcastle Museum added to the Champs list as they don't have current fossil fuel sponsors. They have a BHP gallery but it's about the historical role of steelmaking not a naming rights deal. Glad Newcastle's cultural orgs aren't relying on a dying industry for funding! www.chumpslist.org/champs

Just to let everyone know, I'm going on a fax detox starting today. I won't be reading or replying to any faxes for at least two weeks. I'm hoping this lifestyle change will give me headspace to focus on scrolling. You can contact me via email, dm or come to my place of work if you can find it

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i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

Folks this is your reminder that LNG is approx 1/3 MORE CLIMATE DAMAGING THAN COAL once methane escapes across the supply chain are counted. It is an egregious lie that fossil gas mining is needed for the energy transition; the exact opposite is true.

As South Australia's 💔 fossil-fueled algal bloom lays waste to marine ecosystems, SAPremier Malinauskas & Woodside declare their 🤎 4 each other: "he said his support for gas is underpinned by his support for net zero. At Woodside we wholeheartedly agree. Increased gas supply is a net zero solution"

🚨BIG news 🚨 Climbing pioneers, rising talents and major orgs have signed an open letter urging climbing federations and other pro climbers to take a stand against polluting sponsorship. 🧵 1/7 Full story. 👇