Kath Rowley,who below guides staff on how to downplay gas emissions, has just been appointed CEO of the Climate Change Authority, the body providing 'independent' advice to govt Safe appointment for a govt wanting fossil fuel expansion to remain at home in our climate institutions. #auspol #climate

Some, as they say, personal news from me. After a long period of illness I’m being treated for autoimmune encephalitis, a neurological disease where the immune system attacks the brain. I’m posting this because many people here have supported my work & been a source of collaboration and inspiration.

Some, as they say, personal news from me. After a long period of illness I’m being treated for autoimmune encephalitis, a neurological disease where the immune system attacks the brain. I’m posting this because many people here have supported my work & been a source of collaboration and inspiration.

Our CEO @billhare.bsky.social called the new data “alarming and worrying.” “Let there be no mistake, this is a very clear warning sign that the world is heading into an extremely dangerous state – and this is driven by the continued expansion of fossil fuel development, globally.”

There's a very nice new report from @climateanalytics.org on precisely this: "Hard to abate" has become its own form of subtle climate delay --->> @billhare.bsky.social @cindybax.bsky.social ca1-clm.edcdn.com/assets/Clima...

My new report is out - Adani sold coal at mates rates to India, avoiding $400m in royalty payments to Queensland ...and Qld's LNP gov doesn't seem to care. Thread below on how they did it. Write up in @australia.theguardian.com @australiainstitute.org.au www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“The Albanese Government is committed to no new extinctions” Environment Minister Murray Watt, reaffirming Labor’s 2022 pledge on Threatened Species Day 2025 2 weeks later Australia’s only shrew is declared extinct. #auspol #climate @australiainstitute.org.au minister.dcceew.gov.au/watt/media-r...

Timor-Leste just scrapped lifetime pensions for former parliamentarians after student-led protests. But sure — protest doesn’t work. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Well done the young people of #TimorLeste! There are many of them and they are the future of that beautiful place of very resilient people.

Timor-Leste just scrapped lifetime pensions for former parliamentarians after student-led protests. But sure — protest doesn’t work. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

This is utterly … what’s the word? Oh yes … fucked. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Could the National Press Club be less embarrassing and less complicit in the genocide of Palestine/the West's decline into overt fascism, pretty, pretty, pretty please? 🙏 Cancelling Chris Hedges' talk on the betrayal of Palestinian journalists only proves his point. Truly, truly pathetic

Exclusive: Correspondence obtained by Lamestream show the National Press Club confirmed Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him because was “in favour” of Palestine. www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-na...

Just as @australiainstitute.org.au and @pollyjhemming.bsky.social have been saying for ages.

Offsets don't lower emissions.

The solution to this is easy: 1/ Stop unrestricted gas exports. 2/ Reduce Australian domestic gas prices with uncontracted gas. 3/ Make gas exporters pay their fair share of taxes and royalties. 4/ Approve no new gas projects. Sign the petition here! nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...

Here's the ACCC today saying that gas exporters are ripping us off. Again. "gas being offered & supplied by the exporters to the domestic market has declined over time, while LNG export volumes have increased." @australiainstitute.org.au @markogge.bsky.social www.accc.gov.au/system/files...

“Hard to abate” is the climate wonk’s term for an industry with no immediate route to zero carbon emissions. But I think there’s “hard to abate” & “expensive to abate” & then there’s “it’s just a bit difficult & we can’t really be bothered to abate”. None of this is impossible. We need to *choose*.

Australia and its climate targets - a dismal history (1988-2025) allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/20/a...

The Vic government harped on about how they’d successfully closed the last group home back in 2019, when in reality they’d just handed off responsibility to neoliberal managers in privately run NFPs, which made it almost impossible for the Community Visitors scheme to provide a safeguard for ppl

30 yrs ago today (Sept 5, 1995) – Australian Aluminium Council joins “Greenhouse Challenge” This is obvious to smart ppl, but not so much to academics & eco-modernists: Any voluntary "emissions reduction" scheme a major polluter joins is greenwash *at best*. allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/04/s...

Hey @albomp.bsky.social, if I request security info using #FOI, it’s exempt from release under the current law. If an anonymous person requests security info using FOI, it’s exempt from release under the current law. You’re gaslighting to extinguish transparency! #StickWithTruth #auspol

Also happens to be written by a carbon market proponent....the first line of the article is literally "I have a conflict of interest..." The carbon market is a casualty of its own bad science not ideology or arbitrary opposition. #auspol #climate

I'm angry with the colony this week. Probably all week. It's pretty telling that there are not enough white Australian antifash to organise an anti fascist response to fucking Nazis

Buried further down, the glib legal disclaimer: "there is no suggestion it influenced the institute’s conduct. Nor is there any suggestion of wrongdoing" So why a story? Why claim "an undisclosed donation (raises) transparency concerns"? Why repeated inferences it's been deliberately kept secret?🤷‍♂️

Nasty little piece from The Guardian. You wouldn't be attacking the Australia Institute because several of your former journalists (the good ones) who quit The Guardian en masse last year went to work there, would you? 🤔 BTW Amy Remeikis' live blog is here: live.australiainstitute.org.au #auspol

Robyn Williams: Do you expect the limitation to use of fossil fuels to either running out of them, or to this climate effect? Peter Ritchie-Calder: I think definitely that environmental factors...that you will simply be confronted with a situation which will make life virtually intolerable

FIFTY YEARS AGO today (August 30, 1975), the very first "Science Show" on ABC Radio was broadcast. And, guess what - there was someone warning about carbon dioxide build-up and climate change. allouryesterdays.info/2023/08/29/a...

Well, in Australia, the government is cheating anyway even with a low ambition target. theconversation.com/sleight-of-h...

From the Labor adviser who pitched “net zero fossil fuels” comes a sequel: “Don’t set climate targets too high, or the government might have to do something". #auspol #climate www.afr.com/policy/energ...

"any goal north of 60 per cent will require a major expansion of emissions reductions in the transport, industrial and agricultural sectors" yep that is the entire point????????????????????????????????????????????? www.afr.com/policy/energ...

It's really quite impressive how strenuously everyone in this article avoids talking about fossil fuels. Nearly a fifth of Australia’s emissions now come from digging up and sending fossil fuels overseas. #auspol @australiainstitute.org.au australiainstitute.org.au/post/nearly-...

‘The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.’ George Orwell- 1984

Don't worry about exporting fossil fuels! You just export more not-fossil fuels and the emissions disappear like magic. It's very good maths and extremely good real science. #auspol #climate

"Governments like to cheat so they can pretend to reach ambitious targets" is true, but the conclusion is "hold governments accountable" not "stop with all this ambition bullshit"

When climate groups call for science-aligned targets, it’s branded “excessively ambitious.” Remarkable framing from someone who is meant to be leading ANU’s Centre for Climate & Energy Policy. #auspol #climate

From the Labor adviser who pitched “net zero fossil fuels” comes a sequel: “Don’t set climate targets too high, or the government might have to do something". #auspol #climate www.afr.com/policy/energ...

"With the Nationals now openly campaigning against net zero, Labor can frame even modest measures as bold, lowering the bar for climate ambition even further." - Climate & Energy Director Polly Hemming in the latest Saturday Paper @pollyjhemming.bsky.social @thesaturdaypaper.com.au #auspol

Barnaby's anti-net zero bill is doing Labor a favour. The Nats/Coalition are entirely irrelevant in parliament now, but media coverage breathing life into their nonsense will just help make whatever the Albanese govt says/does about climate look ambitious in comparison. #auspol #climate

Great article by @pollyjhemming.bsky.social Perhaps the slow degradation and pillorying of the public service over the last 30 years, with no frank and fearless public servants left, has ablated our spine.

The UN describes the climate emergency as “the biggest economic, social, and environmental threat facing the planet and humanity”. @australiainstitute.org.au found 60% Australians aren’t sure/not aware of any actions the govt is taking to manage/reduce the negative impacts of climate change #auspol

I'm speaking at Monash Uni tomorrow about Australia's gas policy mess and Woodside in particular. @australiainstitute.org.au @nteumonash.bsky.social

Ahead of @jimchalmers.bsky.social Productivity Roundtable, the govt still hasn’t released the national climate risk assessment. Most Australians haven’t even heard of “climate risk” while insurers, polluters & govt act on data the public can’t see. australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/u... #auspol

Australia's 'independent' REGULATOR of carbon offsets is a paying member of Australia's carbon offset lobby group AND sponsors their annual conference AND pays them to deliver (non-biased I assume) 'educational' seminars. And that's totally fine. #auspol #climate

The Climate Change Authority, the 'independent' agency tasked with giving the Australian Govt 'independent' climate advice is also a member of Australia's carbon offset lobby. Makes sense when the CCA board is stacked with carbon offset interests I guess(no allegations of impropriety etc) #auspol

The chair of the Climate Change Authority is advising the govt on policy that affects the demand and supply of carbon credits WHILE ALSO employed by a firm that describes itself as "Generating high-integrity carbon credits". www.afr.com/policy/energ...

#ICYMI Report on how "verified carbon credits" is actually quite a meaningless phrase. The carbon market is rife with conflict of interest, weak/ bad methodologies and "a plethora of unmeasurable assumptions and judgments" about an invisible commodity i.e. CO2 drilled.media/news/carbon-...

HEY friends - new @crikey.com.au piece up now! American 'abundance agenda' brain rot has killing brain cells in Canberra. But as we can see from what's happened over there, deregulatory fantasies only ever end up serving those doing the most harm to climate / environment. Have a read!