A bumper new issue of Ocean Development and International Law is out now with articles on a wide range of interesting issues. As always, it is a privilege to work with the authors and reviewers of ODIL and with our fearless leader, Editor-in-Chief Professor Karen Scott.

A new study found that more than half of the world’s straddling stocks will shift across the maritime borders between exclusive economic zones & the high seas by 2050. Most of these shifts will be into the high seas, where fisheries management is much more challenging & stocks may be overexploited.

If the Productivity Commission was as interested in productivity as it is in ideology it would be pushing for much tougher efficiency standards for cars, houses and commercial buildings…but no…it wants market forces to fix market failure..FFS…my op-ed #climate www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

The proposed EV road-user charge is unfair & not what the Productivity Commission recommended. Any road-user charge should be part of a national, equitable reform that applies to all vehicles. It should replace the outdated fuel excise & reflect the true cost and emissions impact of transport.

The Federal Government has released a new report that includes projections of how much gas Australia is set to use over the coming decades. There is no ambiguity in its message: Australia reached peak gas years ago, and it’s all downhill from here. @ketanjoshi.co #auspol

The dirty Australian loophole in plug-in hybrid emissions ratings. thedriven.io/2025/07/22/t...

looking for cheaper #EV? Manheim Auction have EV only auction coming soon. Over 30 used EVs up for auction this week—Tesla, BYD, Hyundai, BMW and more. Novated lease friendly, low-interest loans available, and many ex-fleet & gov units. autotalk.com.au/industry-new...

A solar-powered AI data center that runs at night? Yep. @CrusoeAI & @RedwoodMat deployed 63 MWh of second-life EV batteries, 12 MW of power, & 20 acres of solar to run 2,000 GPUs—off-grid. It’s the world’s largest reused battery system. Clean, scalable—& it blows a hole in the AI energy demand FUD.

Looking forward to catching up with old friends and making new ones at #ANZSIL2025 next week, where the warmth of the welcome (and the heat generated by the intellect and brainpower on this program) will make up for the wintery weather!

You might not know her name, but Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough just made some major calls when deciding the fate of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” The good news: this big ugly bill got a lot smaller. For a breakdown of what stayed in, what got cut, and why it matters, look no further.

Here, @scottjshapiro.bsky.social and I consider the collapse of the prohibition on the use of force and the likely consequences: a global arms race, wars of conquest, shrinking trade, and the end of global cooperation. We chart another potential path, but it would require courage and quick action.

Factcheck by @timinclimate.bsky.social on Prime Minister's @albomp.bsky.social statement that North West Shelf gas is needed for Energy Transition. Fact Check: Woodside’s #NorthWestShelf extension isn’t needed to firm the Western Australian grid timinclimate.medium.com/fact-check-w...

Here we go. I don't have much to say about this one to encourage you to read, and the title will turn many of you away - and maybe it should - but I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't get this one out:

🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms. But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?

Time for some calls, emails, conversations - with a great resource to support us.

This month, the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security (ANCORS) welcomed 17 women from 7 countries to University of Wollongong for the Women in Maritime Security (WIMS) Program: an action-packed two weeks focused on law of the sea, maritime security, leadership & management. 1/4

Global Ferry Electrification Accelerates: 70% Of New Orders Go Electric cleantechnica.com/2025/05/05/g...

2,9 kW Compraría este kit mañana mismo Alguien sabe si se comercializa?

"After almost 100 years on the planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea." #Oceans #Climate #Biodiversity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

World’s largest all-electric ferry launches in Tasmania. thedriven.io/2025/05/02/t...

An Australian Maritime Strategy: The Echidna Needs to Be Able to Swim | I'll be speaking at the @AIIANational this wk in Canberra on what an 🇦🇺 Maritime Strategy looks like. Register to attend 👇 @nscanu.bsky.social @congeostrategy.bsky.social aiia.glueup.com/event/an-aus...

Glad to see that the International Labor Organization has finally agreed to amend the Maritime Labor Convention to prohibit the sexual violence on vessels. Its failure to do so until now, however, unnecessarily subjected numerous women to abuse. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Come and work with me! We’re hiring a new Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow with expertise in international disaster law to join us at the Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social - apply by 15 May external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

If you're interested in gaining editorial experience at your favourite international law blog @opiniojuris.bsky.social, please take a look at the details below and do apply! #internationallaw #blogs opiniojuris.org/2025/04/14/c...

The perfect weekend is.......when you hop in an electric Land Rover and drive into the bush where the bell birds are singing, to a cozy cabin next to a lake where you can snuggle with the dog and watch the campfire.

Something positive to end the week - a new podcast on 'Negotiating the Ocean' from my ANCORS and @oceanequity.bsky.social colleagues. It's a great pocket-sized listen, which will join some of my other favourite ocean audio, including @deepseapod.com and @cimsec.bsky.social's Sea Control podcast.

And a regular & needed reminder that there's nothing we can do about the US - but there's an enormous amount we can do to make sure it doesn't happen to us - especially in this election year! Start here by subscribing, volunteering, donating & sharing #auspol #npc > linktr.ee/CommunityInd...

Hey @kiwiev.bsky.social, want to come and see how many potatoes you can fit in the LandRover FTI? 😁🥔 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It's been an electrifying weekend! Thank you to the #EverythingElectric and @fullychargedshow.bsky.social teams, and to the NSW branch of the @aevanational.bsky.social for amazing arrangements and a great show. It just keeps getting better every year.

Happy International Women's Day from the empowered women at Everything Electric Australia!

It's brilliant to see mainstream events discussing the electrification of marine industries. Great chair and panellists from Marine Emissions Reduction Coalition, Oceon Energy, Ocean Impact Organisation and Candela. Thank you @fullychargedshow.bsky.social for talking about EVERYTHING electric!

Thinking about coming to Everything Electric in Sydney this weekend to check out the latest in...all the electric things? There is SO MUCH to see this year. Here's a behind-the-scenes peek at the 'bump-in' from our stealth LandRover! m.youtube.com/watch?v=RtVE...

If anyone here is thinking about going to the Everything Electric show in Sydney, my friend Syd will have his converted Land Rover on show. He’s also documented the entire process on Youtube! What a champ. youtu.be/mYvCkqYcVOI?...

Dreaming of an electric Land Rover? My partner has converted his 1989 ex-Army Land Rover Perentie to electric using a wrecked Tesla Model 3. He calls it 'FTI' (Full Tesla Integration) - it's fully road registered, fully quiet, fully powerful, and fully amazing! Check out his Youtube channel...

The MY23 MG ZS EV Long Range 72kWh is now available from $36888 drive away.

#BREAKING Senator @davidpocock.bsky.social announces at our #ClimateIntegrity Summit he will be introducing the Ending Fossil Fuel Exploration Bill into Parliament tomorrow! "This just brings us into line with what many leaders in the world are already doing."

Global declines in ocean primary production underestimated by climate models communities.springernature.com/posts/global... 🌊

One for you, @outbackev-hunter.bsky.social! Who else is going to Everything Electric Australia? See you there!

For those interested in free access to legal information, AustLII Co-Directors Philip Chung and Andrew Mowbray were today honoured by being appointed as Members of the Order of Australia (AM). The AustLII Media Release concerning the appointments is at: www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/anno...

22MW capacity would have seemed completely unthinkable not that long ago. The speed of technological progress and simultaneous decline in life-time cost for wind energy is just breathtaking. And what the world needs. reneweconomy.com.au/a-weapon-for...

This week, @francesanggadi.bsky.social and I had the privilege of convening a law of the sea short course for the Women in Maritime Security (WIMS) program, this time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, alongside the launch of the new ANCORS Southeast Asia Maritime Institute at UOW Malaysia.

Helpful starter pack with international organizations on bluesky 👇

We all think plastic pollution is a problem, and it is. In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, the world produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of plastic. But all the plastic we have EVER produced weighs as much as CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024!

With only nine Australian-crewed ships still operating, the proposed National Strategic Fleet could be the key to securing supply chains in times of crisis.

Welcome to the Oceanography feed! Reply to @davidho.bsky.social to be added as a contributor. Use the water wave emoji on posts you want to appear in the feed. 🌊 Please like the feed. Also, no disinformation, oceanography post only, add alt text and credit for images, and provide external links.

I hadn’t seen one of these yet so made one of all the ANZSIL members I could find over here. Apologies if I missed anyone - but there’s still space! go.bsky.app/53PWALS

🌊 "Nowhere on Earth is there a greater cause of uncertainty in sea-level rise projections than from East Antarctica, in Australia’s backyard. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet alone holds enough water to raise global sea levels by approximately 50m if completely melted." www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Dipping my toe in here to let my - very few - followers know that our new edited book, Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands: Understanding Statecraftiness, has just been published Open Access: www.routledge.com/Power-and-In...

I haven't had a chance to be part of #30DayMapChallenge this year, and am a few days behind... but Day 11 "Time and space" is too good to resist: Here's one week of ocean tides animated across Australasia (🔵= high tide, 🔴 = low tide). 🌊 Pretty incredible how complex (and hypnotic!) they are!

Thank you @reecelewis.bsky.social for putting the old law of the sea crew back together on a new and improved platform. Share, find, add, shout out, you all know what to do.....