Read the tealeaves or chicken entrails Labor. Get real or this trajectory will get you

With the Coalition tearing itself apart over whether to pretend to care about the climate crisis or to drop the figleaf altogether, the government is presented with an opportunity to actually lead - to take real, significant action. Net zero is a figleaf in-between-days.ghost.io/net-zero-rea...

Unfortunately, yes, @albomp.bsky.social and @australianlabor.bsky.social are that shit.

Which, in the context of Aust's electoral system, only serves to aid and abet the continuation of an ALP Government which delivers for the fossil fuel industry.

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

The govt’s environment laws ignore the biggest threat to nature - climate change. I’ve proposed several amendments, including requiring climate-related financial & transition risk disclosure as a consideration for all approvals, as well as embedding a duty of care for wellbeing of future generations

“Gas over the course of the next couple of hundred years is going to be phased out. But in the short-term it provides a firming role which supports the renewables transition, in a period in which battery technology is still developing.”- Andrew Leigh Not true 🧵 www.andrewleigh.com/transcript_a...

Democracy is not MP's total compliance and silence outside the party room, it is not lining up your commercial future via donors and lobbyists, it is not circumventing the wishes of the majority by deception and secrecy...

Phew! We’re still on track. Tell the Libs to relax, there’s no hurry.

What really annoys me is todays feckless Labor wearing Gough's dismissal as some kind of badge of honour. Labor then & now - chalk & cheese.

No Labor govt since has dared to have a suite of policies as progressive. That was one of the most damaging consequences of that atrocious act, and it is unforgivable. I still maintain my rage. /END

Farmers are making money from wind turbines, but the Liberals would rather help Gina Rinehart make another billion #auspol

A draft report commissioned by the WA gov referenced "significant risks" from gas which were removed in the final version, according to the ABC. "It really is climate denial for Roger Cook to suggest the more gas exports WA has, the better it is for the climate." @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

@albomp.bsky.social #FreePalestine

The Libs are counting on the idea that they just need to bombard Australians with enough propaganda suggesting renewables cause high power prices, then they can retake power. Things are going to get pretty nasty I suspect.

Palestinian bodies returned to Gaza have had organs "expertly removed as they are with organ transplants." Precision thoracic cuts, minimal tissue damage, preservation burns—signs of deliberate surgical extraction. The Geneva Convention demands dignity for the dead & accountability. #zi0Barbarity

Sometimes a headline says all you need to know.

🤡OIL DEMAND WILL KEEP RISING🤡 What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?

🔴 “Every Released Palestinian Has Spoken of Torture, Starvation, or Medical Neglect” Diana Buttu describes a systematic regime of torture inside Israeli prisons, noting how all of the 1,700 Palestinian hostages released recently “have spoken about torture over and over again. There isn’t one...

Way past time

‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children

What do you need to do to ‘earn’ a trillion dollars in this economy? — First Dog on the Moon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is the inevitable result of treating housing as an investment. Rubbish policies-> rubbish outcomes

Now that they've given a state funeral to Graham Richardson, the entire concept has been rendered permanently meaningless. Nice work Albo.

It just gets worse and worse!!

There are mountains of clean power that regularly get 'wasted' as Australia's energy system evolves. But a large amount of battery storage is waiting in the wings, ready to soak it up.

"while Labor’s support for net zero creates no danger for the fossil fuel industry, it creates significant danger for our democracy as millions of voters are tricked into believing that they are voting to tackle climate change, when in reality they are voting for fossil fuel expansion"

[COMMENTARY] A new op-ed warns that Bill Gates’ new essay, “Three Tough Truths About Climate,” risks undermining progress by framing development and climate action as a trade-off. “The challenge is to ensure everyone thrives on a healthy planet,” she writes. ** Views are the author’s.

The installed capacity of carbon capture and storage is about 50 megatonnes per annum of carbon, but it actually captures about 30 a year Have been hunting for this number for a LONG time - buried in a DNV CCS report -> brandcentral.dnv.com/original/gal...

WHAT A WIN❗WHAT A WIN‼️✊✊✊ Reminder: you can go to @pennytangey.bsky.social's Chumps List & search 'university' to bring up the long, long list of programs fossil fuel corps sponsor at Australia's higher education institutions Be like @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social, start your own campaign‼️

Great outcome. A benefit of local grass roots campaigning around a clear and justifiable ask

welcome to 2025 everyone!!

Here's an excerpt from The Long Heat on how the promise of carbon removal is being swept away in the logic of carbon offsetting. Thanks @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for publishing it 🙏 lithub.com/carbon-offse...

People landing in Rio for #COP30 are greeted by TotalEnergies ads. Quite ironic: some of their ads have just been ruled illegal greenwashing in a Court case we supported. The company called itself a big "player in the energy transition” but last year, about 97% of their production was fossil fuels.

"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people" Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->

AI growth in data centres is just what the coal and gas industries need. Sigh

“Newcastle is the world's largest coal port. It ships out 150 million tonnes of coal a year. ..Our government's own energy stats show we export over 330M tonnes of coal each year. Shiploads - daily, weekly, yearly - leaving from places like Newcastle.” www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/austral...

On this matter I am a doomist. It’s about time most of the still-ALP loyalists realised that,only being a minority gov for a while, will shake up the party enough to become the ALP of the past again.

We make no apologies for blocking Labor’s disastrous bill to kill FOI. The task for this Parliament is to make government more transparent and more accountable. Right now the Albanese government is the greatest obstacle to that.

#auspol #VoteIndependent Regain control of our government from the the fossil fuel lobby

At least they covered the decline of primary votes and the rise of Independents. Even Waleed says that it would not surprise him that we enter a norm of successive minority guvs. I would welcome the 'Europe-isation' of #auspol where we get better and fairer representation. Danish guv looks awesome.

Well put

'As the far right feeds on anger and alienation, the independents movement is building something far more powerful: Connection, trust and shared purpose.' #auspol

',,, major party support is at historically low levels, independents and minor parties collectively attracted more votes than the LNP, with 10 independents elected and 10 more coming incredibly close.' This could mean a total of at least 20 on the crossbench. Let's go, #auspol!

'By grounding political representation in shared priorities rather than party ideology, the community independents movement is showing that politics can once again be cooperative — a space for problem-solving, not point-scoring.' Bravo! #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

With you there, Albo. "Make no mistake: November 11th 1975 was not a 'constitutional crisis' — it was a partisan political ambush." www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

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.

Need I keep saying …..?