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Jonathan Green
@greenj.bsky.social
Wordy emigre. Means well. Talks to microphones. Writes. Wokish. he/him

https://greenworlds.substack.com/
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Magnificent
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Sat on, or shat in? The great Australian cultural questions.
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Anyone remember that famous image of Liberal MPs celebrating the passage of the carbon tax repeal bill? 2014.

Today's pre meeting 'power walk' by the conservatives had the same vibes.
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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The 1975 “dismissal” of Australian Labor PM Gough Whitlam is often seen as a constitutional crisis initiated by an old British-led establishment.

In reality, it was a bloodless analog of other US-orchestrated coups against reforming left governments.
Fifty Years Ago, the US Staged a Coup in Australia
The 1975 “dismissal” of Australian Labor PM Gough Whitlam is often seen as a constitutional crisis initiated by an old British-led establishment. In reality, it was a bloodless analog of other US-orchestrated coups against reforming left governments.
jacobin.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Breaking: ineffectual political grouping does something asinine with zero real world impact.
More in our main bulletin.
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Those Betoota boys break me up … very funny.
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The obsessive focus by political media on coalition policy deliberations … maybe talk about something that has a real world impact? This constant propping of a two-party formula just because it suits your notion of horse race politics is beyond dull.
Think.
Talk issues not numbers.
Do better.
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Oh. Good oh.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
World’s best pub dog :)
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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This has increasingly been my feeling. I try not to despair but greed is such a powerful motivator and it’s too easy for a lot of folks to be wilfully ignorant and/or apathetic. We have so much potential. This world is a gift. But self-interest seems to be hard-wired into too many people.
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Sussan Ley in 2021 … her electorate of Farrer is a renewables powerhouse.

www.themonthly.com.au/september-20...
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
All that said it’s hard not to watch this without a sense of weary despair… we won’t save this world will we. Somehow the momentary needs and greed of vested interest will win out. A tiny self-absorbed few will do for the rest of us… they’ll blight the future to line their pockets. Sod ‘em.
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
At least this makes sense…
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Important context as one of Australia's major political parties readies to abandon its commitment to net zero emissions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says IEA
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
After marathon partyroom session, Liberals determine to revert to horse-drawn night soil collection, citing importance of ‘Aussie jobs’.
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.

This is politics today.

We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
Net zero reality and the extinction of politics-as-usual
On words without meaning, meaning without worlds The sheer inanity, the ecocidal banality of our current political discourse was encapsulated perfectly this morning on the floor of the House of Repre...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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“We’re afraid of walkable distances now?” I was one of the first to go after the liars & conspiracy theorists who targeted the “15 Minute Cities” message. Here’s my interview with Aussie National Radio with @greenj.bsky.social — give it a listen, and think about how we should push back on ALL lies.
'We're afraid of walkable distances now?' — conspiracies and the '15-minute city' - ABC listen
The polite world of urban planning has become the latest target of conspiracy theorists. In recent weeks, the 15-minute city concept — where neighbourhoods provide life's essentials in 15 minutes by f...
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Just sit with this sentence for a moment. What planet are they on?
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Only just discovered Linda Reynolds's middle name and well yes, very
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Random thought: can you imagine Alistair Cooke’s Letter From America in the time of Trump?
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
What are the actual mathematics of this? What is the electoral promise?
Who runs Advance? Wile E. Coyote?
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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losing it that these were the best pics of John Howard that AAP could get today
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM