Lu
@alwayscuppatime.bsky.social
Love is a verb so I’m showing up for people & the planet. Regional Queensland. It’s always a good time for a cuppa!
So pleased to hear @lamestreampod.bsky.social call out Boyce’s terrible behaviour in parliament this week. Absolutely disgraceful, I wish he wasn’t my MP. #auspol
February 13, 2026 at 12:57 PM
So pleased to hear @lamestreampod.bsky.social call out Boyce’s terrible behaviour in parliament this week. Absolutely disgraceful, I wish he wasn’t my MP. #auspol
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Today, under the cover of the Liberals tearing each other down, Labor has approved another coal mine extension.
Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects.
In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.
Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects.
In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.
February 13, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Today, under the cover of the Liberals tearing each other down, Labor has approved another coal mine extension.
Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects.
In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.
Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects.
In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.
This is horrific. People spend their lives creating such monstrous machines, and here they’ve been used on a trapped, defenceless civilian population. This is why people don’t want Herzog in Australia. #auspol www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:23 PM
This is horrific. People spend their lives creating such monstrous machines, and here they’ve been used on a trapped, defenceless civilian population. This is why people don’t want Herzog in Australia. #auspol www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Australia’s worst heatwave since black summer made five times more likely by global heating, analysis suggests
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Australia’s worst heatwave since black summer made five times more likely by global heating, analysis finds
Extreme heat ‘is getting worse and whether we like it or not … there’s ultimately a limit to what we can actually physically cope with,’ scientist says
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Australia’s worst heatwave since black summer made five times more likely by global heating, analysis suggests
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia is paying $750m to a US prison company and $2.5bn in a secret deal to Nauru, yet the hundred or so asylum seekers in Nauru are starving.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
‘Day by day I lose weight’: asylum seekers on Nauru get $115 a week, but a bag of grapes costs $20
Forbidden from working, people sent to the island by Australia say they are struggling to survive because food is so expensive
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Australia is paying $750m to a US prison company and $2.5bn in a secret deal to Nauru, yet the hundred or so asylum seekers in Nauru are starving.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
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"Public land is privatised, heritage is compromised, neighbourhood character is sacrificed, streets are deserted and unsafe. Cities cease to be places of meaning and become engines of yield. Residents become metrics. Community becomes an afterthought." #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
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The great failure of the property industry
In every era, certain industries become so large, so politically embedded, and so culturally unexamined that their performance ceases to matter.
johnmenadue.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"Public land is privatised, heritage is compromised, neighbourhood character is sacrificed, streets are deserted and unsafe. Cities cease to be places of meaning and become engines of yield. Residents become metrics. Community becomes an afterthought." #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
On the road the other day I got a cup of tea at Maccas. $4.55 for terrible tea, but to add extra insult, a splash of soy milk is 80c extra. I’m sure it used to be 50c. The cost of tea includes the price of regular milk, how can soy milk be 80c more?! Rip off. #australia #tea
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
On the road the other day I got a cup of tea at Maccas. $4.55 for terrible tea, but to add extra insult, a splash of soy milk is 80c extra. I’m sure it used to be 50c. The cost of tea includes the price of regular milk, how can soy milk be 80c more?! Rip off. #australia #tea
This is Labor at their ‘zenith’?! Poverty is rising, health & education are struggling, emissions targets will be missed & fossil fuels are still being approved. Leaves a lot to be desired if this is the high point. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Albanese and Labor are at their zenith. What a difference a year makes
It is hard to imagine a better end to the prime minister's year than this one, but realists in government know Labor can't continue to ride the wave.
www.abc.net.au
November 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is Labor at their ‘zenith’?! Poverty is rising, health & education are struggling, emissions targets will be missed & fossil fuels are still being approved. Leaves a lot to be desired if this is the high point. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
I take my hat off to the #risingtide activists who have taken to the water to disrupt coal exports this weekend. Congratulations to all the organisers & volunteers for pulling off an epic protestival! #endfossilfuels
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I take my hat off to the #risingtide activists who have taken to the water to disrupt coal exports this weekend. Congratulations to all the organisers & volunteers for pulling off an epic protestival! #endfossilfuels
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Is oral health a priority for the Albanese Government? Apparently not… – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/is-oral-heal...
#AusPol
#AusPol
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Is oral health a priority for the Albanese Government? Apparently not… – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/is-oral-heal...
#AusPol
#AusPol
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Certain politicians continue the lie that we can keep opening more coal mines and coal seam gas fields without totally destroying Australia’s climate and food and water security.
#climatecrisis #netzero2050 #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
#climatecrisis #netzero2050 #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Ditching net zero abandons Aussie farmers like me
When politicians say they’re against net zero, they’re willing to let their constituents suffer record-breaking floods, droughts and heat.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Certain politicians continue the lie that we can keep opening more coal mines and coal seam gas fields without totally destroying Australia’s climate and food and water security.
#climatecrisis #netzero2050 #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
#climatecrisis #netzero2050 #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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This is definitely a blind spot in the EPBC Act reform bills.
#auslaw #auspol #climatecrisis
theconversation.com/long-awaited...
#auslaw #auspol #climatecrisis
theconversation.com/long-awaited...
Long-awaited environment laws might get Australia sued. Here’s why
Labor has pledged to pass long-awaited environment laws this week. But the current reforms leave Australia open to legal challenge.
theconversation.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is definitely a blind spot in the EPBC Act reform bills.
#auslaw #auspol #climatecrisis
theconversation.com/long-awaited...
#auslaw #auspol #climatecrisis
theconversation.com/long-awaited...
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From ‘net zero’ to ‘net gain’. The platypus-to-possum exchange rate https://michaelwest.com.au/from-net-zero-to-net-gain-the-platypus-to-possum-exchange-rate/ #auspol
From ‘net zero’ to ‘net gain’. The platypus-to-possum exchange rate
Following the Libs 'Net Zero' battle, 'Net Gain' will be the focus this week as Murray Watt struggles to get changes to environmental laws passed.
michaelwest.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
From ‘net zero’ to ‘net gain’. The platypus-to-possum exchange rate https://michaelwest.com.au/from-net-zero-to-net-gain-the-platypus-to-possum-exchange-rate/ #auspol
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Out in regional and outer-suburban Australia, people aren’t debating the science of climate change anymore – they’re debating whether the clean energy transition will make their lives better or worse.
#climatecrisis #renewableenergy #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
#climatecrisis #renewableenergy #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Forget net zero, we need to talk about Australia's next jobs boom
If the past decade of climate politics in Australia was a fight over whether to act, the next one will be a fight over who benefits.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Out in regional and outer-suburban Australia, people aren’t debating the science of climate change anymore – they’re debating whether the clean energy transition will make their lives better or worse.
#climatecrisis #renewableenergy #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
#climatecrisis #renewableenergy #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
‘The woeful failure to tighten the regulation of land clearing and native forest logging suggests either profound ecological ignorance or complete indifference, to the fate of wildlife and our natural and cultural heritage.’
You cant protect nature if you wont protect native forests from chain saws & bulldozers
Great column by Virginia Young on Labors deeply flawed new ‘nature laws’…the ones that’s are so flawed the mining industry are desperately lobbying the Liberals to vote for them
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Great column by Virginia Young on Labors deeply flawed new ‘nature laws’…the ones that’s are so flawed the mining industry are desperately lobbying the Liberals to vote for them
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
‘The woeful failure to tighten the regulation of land clearing and native forest logging suggests either profound ecological ignorance or complete indifference, to the fate of wildlife and our natural and cultural heritage.’
Paul Kelly’s #likeaversion was sooo good!
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Paul Kelly’s #likeaversion was sooo good!
Appalling prospect.
Coalition to help Labor rush through new nature laws if environmental protections dropped
Coalition to help Labor rush through new nature laws if environmental protections dropped
Sussan Ley’s offer allows a clear path to pass laws to rewrite Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act in final sitting week
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The Coalition has offered to help Labor rush through new nature laws if it agrees to gut environment protection, challenging Labor to side with business interests over green groups to implement the long-awaited changes.
Environmental lawyers are urging the government against further weakening already flawed laws at the “behest of industry”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Appalling prospect.
Reading about this in the same month that Australia is put at 142 of 145 nations on Harvard’s greenplexity index is quite something. As reported by @johnmenadue.com it measures how ready countries are to embrace new green value chains.
CSIRO cutting another 350 research roles to save costs “Guardian Australia understands the research areas affected by the latest round of job losses will include the health and biosecurity, agriculture and food and environment research units.”
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#auspol
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#auspol
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Reading about this in the same month that Australia is put at 142 of 145 nations on Harvard’s greenplexity index is quite something. As reported by @johnmenadue.com it measures how ready countries are to embrace new green value chains.
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CSIRO cutting another 350 research roles to save costs “Guardian Australia understands the research areas affected by the latest round of job losses will include the health and biosecurity, agriculture and food and environment research units.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
CSIRO cutting another 350 research roles to save costs “Guardian Australia understands the research areas affected by the latest round of job losses will include the health and biosecurity, agriculture and food and environment research units.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol
I really wish Sarah Ferguson had a moment to ask how Ley plans to address climate change if her plan is to ‘unlock gas’. I really hope an lnp-Labor EPBC deal isn’t in our future.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I really wish Sarah Ferguson had a moment to ask how Ley plans to address climate change if her plan is to ‘unlock gas’. I really hope an lnp-Labor EPBC deal isn’t in our future.
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‘Essentially we are adding more carbon debt to our planetary credit card, leaving future generations with an unpayable liability.’ #climateaction #climatecrisis #auspol
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Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
‘Essentially we are adding more carbon debt to our planetary credit card, leaving future generations with an unpayable liability.’ #climateaction #climatecrisis #auspol
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