Pulse Tasmania GM Josh Agnew appears in a confirmed photo celebrating with MPs after the stadium bill passed. It comes amid public concerns about perceived bias in Pulse’s coverage, which Agnew denies. #auspol #politas #tasmania

Pulse Tasmania owner Josh Agnew signed the anti-bike-lane petition as the 14th person, just 2.5hr after it launched on 29 Nov 2024 listing the Pulse office as his address.  Pulse ran 11 negative stories vs 1 positive between OCT24-JAN25 #Hobart #Pulse #politas #news #tas

Vic Labor have already cut huge numbers of environmental programs and jobs in Victoria, and axing Sustainability Victoria is just the latest example of how Labor simply does not care about the environment.

Just a thought… but maybe let’s not have massive data centres sucking up water, gutsing on electricity and destroying the social fabric. Could be an option?

. @keanebernard.bsky.social does not miss #politas

So public non-financial corporations that provide us with essentials like housing (Homes Tasmania), electricity (Hydro, TasNetworks) and transport (TT-Line) have to reduce net borrowings by $500 million to fund the stadium. Terrific. #politas

The Tasmanian Greens are continuing the good fight against the stadium. This is where you can sign up to join the party. #politas contact-tas.greens.org.au/civicrm/cont...

Remarkable to see this finally being uttered out loud but I'm wondering why it took half a decade (including three years under the Labor gov't) for it to be even acknowledged as a problem. The Free Market sucks at causing a rapid energy transition. Gov't policy can potentially not suck.

Disasters like the BoM website update exemplify exactly why we need to build capacity in the public service and reduce our over reliance on consultants. A robust public service will always provide better value for money and better quality for the taxpayer dollar.

Climate change will ‘create’ lots of jobs, eg 2000 extra jobs to process the claims from Brisbane floods Time for new thinking re what kind of jobs we want, not just how many…building new gas & coal doesn’t just cause disasters it diverts workers from useful tasks thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.

Next they’ll claim he can cure the scrofula! #NoKings

’…structured the deal so that the Tasmanian Government…bears the burden of construction, maintenance & operational shortfalls. The AFL knows the business case for stadiums of this size is fragile…’ #politas #auspol #nostadium tasmaniantimes.com/2025/12/afl-...

Forestry Corporation of NSW is failing NSW's native forests, and threatened species like greater gliders are paying the price. 🚨 New analysis shows huge discrepancies between the agency's glider habitat surveys and those done by citizen scientists before logging begins. #nswpol #wildoz

Fascinating article about Cape Barren Island 20 years on from land return. A great example how much different (and potentially better in many respects) things can be if a local community is given much more agency and control over its own governance.

The way out is “not to ensure every citizen employs optimal epistemic practices, but to weaken their social identification with cranks and conspiracy theorists, and strengthen their identification with the broadly reliable collective practices of science, scholarship, journalism, law, and so on.”

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

I'm sorry, but some 'good things' are just not enough We are already locked-in to a return to a Pliocene world Meanwhile fossil fuel companies plan for expansion and governments row back on green measures COP30 has made no difference to this whatsoever www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New research from our team! We identify places where the hottest temperature on record is not particularly severe compared to what is possible (a.k.a "soft records"). rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Budgets are about priorities. The idea is to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO… As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...

First take on EPBC amendments in the compromise deal struck to get it passed Justine Bell-James, @euanritchie.bsky.social, @drphilmccormack.bsky.social & me in @aunz.theconversation.com #NativeForestLogging #MinisterialDiscretion #UnacceptableImpacts #PayToDestroy #NationalEnvironmentalStandards

After years of campaigning, we finally have a new national environment law. Some important wins came through, but the law still fails the climate test. Until emissions are fully accounted for and climate impacts properly weighed, our forests, our future, and our climate remain at risk.

Just to cut through the backslapping: the very small emissions reduction (2%) is nowhere near enough even for our own local targets. These are also the easiest cuts (ie from local pwr generation bc we are buying solar panels) and are only in one sector. Exported emissions are 4x bigger and growing.

Not sure I've ever hoped that Jono Duniam is right about something. #politas

Trading places www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

If dystopia is the new norm, @amyremeikis.bsky.social asks, does it have to be so dumb? www.deepcutnews.com/p/its-all-ju...

The Greens have secured an inquiry to find out why job & program cuts are being rolled out across the CSIRO! It will consider the impacts of the funding cuts, the importance of public funding for science & CSIRO’s future funding & resourcing needs.

Sadly, they cut a deal with the Libs to indeed rush this through

Today @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social succeeded in establishing new powers to cancel Centrelink payments before conviction. Thanks @senatorthorpe.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @pennyallmanpayne.com for trying to stop this dangerous law.

How ludicrous for Labor to cut $5 billion in public services during a cost of living crisis. Every six months the government pays around $5b in Fuel Tax Credits to mining corporations to burn fossil fuels. If Labor is going to cut spending, cut handouts to fossil fuel barons.

Millions wasted by Labor on outsourcing core govt work to consultants for rubbish results. The BoM website & Deloitte’s AI bungle are a joke. Where is value for taxpayer money? Instead Labor could invest in strengthening our public service or keeping CSIRO scientists employed.

Labor has backflipped on its 2022 election promise to rebuild the public sector with its intentions to slash 5% of spending off the public service. If Labor wants to tighten the public purse then rein in overspending on consultancy firms instead of cutting the public service.

Minister Murray Watt asks Australians to believe we can better protect nature by facilitating faster exploitation with less regulation and less scrutiny. Read Virginia Young’s full op-ed on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

"As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacentres, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

So business leaders are urging members of the Legislative Council to let a Trojan Horse into the state? 🤔 #politas

My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Please read this & help save the State Library of Victoria, entering its 'now fully trashed' era. I didn't go to uni - for me the Library was higher education in later life, research for my job, a revelation about what ordinary people could have access to. It changed my life. Not just a building.

My seat estimate for this poll Lib 13 (-1) ALP 10 Green 6 (+1) SFF 1 IND 5. Green gain from Lib in Braddon. In Bass the Greens go deeper into cutup but I'm not convinced they win. #politas

#EMRS Tas (state) "🔵 Lib 34 (-4) 🔴 ALP 25 (+1) 🟢 Grn 17 (+4) ⚪️ Ind 19 (=) Net Favs 🔵 Rockliff -1 (-19) 🔴 Willie -4 (-8) n=1,000 50% CATI 50% CAWI Nov 17-21" An ordinary poll for the govt after a good run lately but again Labor doesn't pick up much and the winners are the Greens. #politas

‘She’s a shrewd Green’: meet Alice Springs’ new mayor, determined to rewrite the story of her beloved home town

"But now, the fact the BOM has been hiding the true cost of its white elephant and initially lying about the total figure is deeply concerning, considering that the BOM should be all about trust."

As harrowing as this, it felt like a relief to read it. The commentariat's refusal to grapple with what climate change will do to us, if we don't phase out fossil fuels, has been driving me insane. This should help break the collective amnesia.

"A voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase-out of fossil fuels." Have you ever read such an absurd sentence?

As I argue in The Language of Climate Politics: we are stuck not because climate politics are polarized, but because they’re UNIFIED (across the right and center-left) on the lie that we can keep using oil and gas but still deal with climate change anyway. Here’s a good example of that discourse.

An utter disgrace. A Trumpian level of destruction being wrought at the CSIRO under Albo. "The environment unit, which has more than 700 full-time equivalent roles, will be reduced by 130 to 150. Four of its nine research focuses will not continue"

20% of research staff in the Environment Research Unit (water, climate, biodiversity, oceans, waste, etc) to go! “The environment unit, which has more than 700 full-time equivalent roles, will be reduced by 130 to 150"

“It was revealed in Tasmanian Budget Estimates this week that salmon farming companies had released some 700 kg of florfenicol into the D’Entrecasteaux Channel in less than two weeks.” #politas

Quick!!!! Someone purchase some fire reduction offsets