@jenb46.bsky.social
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This. And why the continuing fiasco re executives at the State Library of Victoria?! Why are Australia's cultural boards stuffed to the gunwhales with ex-Liberal Party donors/businessfolk/pensioned-off-mates & other people with no dedication to or understanding of public collections and services?
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This. And why the continuing fiasco re executives at the State Library of Victoria?! Why are Australia's cultural boards stuffed to the gunwhales with ex-Liberal Party donors/businessfolk/pensioned-off-mates & other people with no dedication to or understanding of public collections and services?
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Australia doesn’t have a gas shortage…& neither does one of our biggest export customers.
Not only does Japan onsell huge amounts of our gas to other countries, Japanese consumers have cheaper electricity than most Australians
Well done Aus Government. Good job
thepoint.com.au/news/251118-...
Not only does Japan onsell huge amounts of our gas to other countries, Japanese consumers have cheaper electricity than most Australians
Well done Aus Government. Good job
thepoint.com.au/news/251118-...
Japan imports Australian gas yet has cheaper electricity than Australia?
The broken nature of Australia energy market has been highlighted by a report that Japanese households pay less for electricity than Australians do, despite Japanese electricity being reliant on Austr...
thepoint.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Australia doesn’t have a gas shortage…& neither does one of our biggest export customers.
Not only does Japan onsell huge amounts of our gas to other countries, Japanese consumers have cheaper electricity than most Australians
Well done Aus Government. Good job
thepoint.com.au/news/251118-...
Not only does Japan onsell huge amounts of our gas to other countries, Japanese consumers have cheaper electricity than most Australians
Well done Aus Government. Good job
thepoint.com.au/news/251118-...
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(New from us)
‘Now the Pacific is leading the way again. Island leaders have a bold plan to become the world’s first region powered entirely by renewables and energy storage.’ #ClimateCrisis #COP30
w/ @wesleymorgan.bsky.social @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-pacific-...
‘Now the Pacific is leading the way again. Island leaders have a bold plan to become the world’s first region powered entirely by renewables and energy storage.’ #ClimateCrisis #COP30
w/ @wesleymorgan.bsky.social @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-pacific-...
How Pacific nations plan to go from spending up to 25% of GDP on fossil fuels to running on 100% renewables
Pacific nations spend billions each year importing fossil fuels for electricity. Now the region’s leaders are aiming for energy independence.
theconversation.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
(New from us)
‘Now the Pacific is leading the way again. Island leaders have a bold plan to become the world’s first region powered entirely by renewables and energy storage.’ #ClimateCrisis #COP30
w/ @wesleymorgan.bsky.social @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-pacific-...
‘Now the Pacific is leading the way again. Island leaders have a bold plan to become the world’s first region powered entirely by renewables and energy storage.’ #ClimateCrisis #COP30
w/ @wesleymorgan.bsky.social @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-pacific-...
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"The average mortgage pays $200,000 in profit over its life to the banks," says Richard Denniss, co-CEO at The Australia Institute.
You can read more on good ideas for economic reform on The Point.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
You can read more on good ideas for economic reform on The Point.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"The average mortgage pays $200,000 in profit over its life to the banks," says Richard Denniss, co-CEO at The Australia Institute.
You can read more on good ideas for economic reform on The Point.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
You can read more on good ideas for economic reform on The Point.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Opinion | "When you examine the Labor Party’s climate policy you might at least give credit to the Liberals for being honest."
From contempt to... pity? Crikey readers on the Liberals' energy policy void
www.crikey.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Opinion | "When you examine the Labor Party’s climate policy you might at least give credit to the Liberals for being honest."
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You can't possum your way out of a koala decline. That's not how bioDIVERSITY works. FFS.
As if carbon offsets weren’t a big enough fraud…welcome to the world of ‘biodiversity offsets’…sure the idea failed dismally in NSW but Murray Watt is keen to have a crack…
what could go wrong?
Just even more extinctions i suppose…#climate #nature
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
what could go wrong?
Just even more extinctions i suppose…#climate #nature
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
How many extra possums does it take to compensate for a dead platypus?
That’s the kind of calculation a bureaucrat would literally have to make under Environment Minister Murray Watt’s new ‘environmental laws’.
thepoint.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
You can't possum your way out of a koala decline. That's not how bioDIVERSITY works. FFS.
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Australia needs to get back into the business of giving loans to owner occupiers rather than property investors - and if the government won’t do it, then APRA should.
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Australia needs to get back into the business of giving loans to owner occupiers rather than property investors - and if the government won’t do it, then APRA should.
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From 2018. "Invisible Hands" by George Monbiot.
Replace "BBC" and "IEA" with "ABC" and "IPA" and this also tells an Australian Story. A dark, murky and corrupt Australian Story. #auspol
www.monbiot.com/2018/07/21/i...
Replace "BBC" and "IEA" with "ABC" and "IPA" and this also tells an Australian Story. A dark, murky and corrupt Australian Story. #auspol
www.monbiot.com/2018/07/21/i...
Invisible Hands
Dark money is undermining our democracies, and it’s never darker than when channelled through lobby groups masquerading as think tanks
www.monbiot.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
From 2018. "Invisible Hands" by George Monbiot.
Replace "BBC" and "IEA" with "ABC" and "IPA" and this also tells an Australian Story. A dark, murky and corrupt Australian Story. #auspol
www.monbiot.com/2018/07/21/i...
Replace "BBC" and "IEA" with "ABC" and "IPA" and this also tells an Australian Story. A dark, murky and corrupt Australian Story. #auspol
www.monbiot.com/2018/07/21/i...
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"Two countries, hardly exemplary when it comes to their environmental credentials, vying for hosting rights to an event that does more to emit greenhouse gases than it resolves to limiting them." WHY?
theaimn.net/competing-fo...
theaimn.net/competing-fo...
Competing for Emissions: The COP Candidate Contest
It’s so silly as to be depraved. Two countries, hardly exemplary when it comes to their environmental credentials, vying for hosting rights to an event that does more to emit greenhouse gases than it ...
theaimn.net
November 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
"Two countries, hardly exemplary when it comes to their environmental credentials, vying for hosting rights to an event that does more to emit greenhouse gases than it resolves to limiting them." WHY?
theaimn.net/competing-fo...
theaimn.net/competing-fo...
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Your choice is quite literally a bipartisan cabal of pedophilic drone-wielding genocidal oligarchs that suck each other off in depraved games of domination and blackmail, or, socialism and a habitable planet, and you're struggling with that choice?! Dafuq is wrong you?
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Your choice is quite literally a bipartisan cabal of pedophilic drone-wielding genocidal oligarchs that suck each other off in depraved games of domination and blackmail, or, socialism and a habitable planet, and you're struggling with that choice?! Dafuq is wrong you?
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Remember they’re pivoting to gas. That’s what Woodside’s NW Shelf expansion is about. And gas is 33% more climate damaging than coal. I wouldn’t be celebrating just yet. There’s a strand of disinformation designed to distract us with fake wins.
November 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Remember they’re pivoting to gas. That’s what Woodside’s NW Shelf expansion is about. And gas is 33% more climate damaging than coal. I wouldn’t be celebrating just yet. There’s a strand of disinformation designed to distract us with fake wins.
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The 1st thing I want to hear from the new Liberal leader in Victoria is a core promise to boost country & suburban funding for maternity services & guarantee ongoing access to contraception & terminations for girls & women, despite the infiltration of Christian extremist-activists in her ranks.
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The 1st thing I want to hear from the new Liberal leader in Victoria is a core promise to boost country & suburban funding for maternity services & guarantee ongoing access to contraception & terminations for girls & women, despite the infiltration of Christian extremist-activists in her ranks.
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This is so Libs #solibs - a couple of days after they abandon net zero and declare they are subsidising coal, our 3rd largest mega-customer declares they are phasing the stuff out
#auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/libs-to-subs...
#auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/libs-to-subs...
Libs to subsidise coal, now South Korea wants out. What's the scam? - Michael West
While the LNP decides that subsidising coal mining is a good idea, our third-largest coal customer decides to stop burning coal altogether.
michaelwest.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is so Libs #solibs - a couple of days after they abandon net zero and declare they are subsidising coal, our 3rd largest mega-customer declares they are phasing the stuff out
#auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/libs-to-subs...
#auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/libs-to-subs...
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One of the companies responsible for exacerbating the cost of living crisis calling on the government to further criminalise and punish of one of the symptoms of that cost of living crisis is another day in capitalist paradise.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
One of the companies responsible for exacerbating the cost of living crisis calling on the government to further criminalise and punish of one of the symptoms of that cost of living crisis is another day in capitalist paradise.
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Persecuted cardiologist back at work. Victor Chang & St Vincent's defamatory press releases vanish.
@wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters investigate Israel lobby money trail (reason for attack on Macdonald) & tainted Sohn Med Research Conf
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/lost-hearts-...
@wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters investigate Israel lobby money trail (reason for attack on Macdonald) & tainted Sohn Med Research Conf
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/lost-hearts-...
Lost hearts, closed minds. Medical research show ignores plight of Gaza, amplifies Israel - Michael West
The medical research industry was captured by the pro-Israel lobby at the Sohn Hearts & Minds Conference last week.
michaelwest.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Persecuted cardiologist back at work. Victor Chang & St Vincent's defamatory press releases vanish.
@wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters investigate Israel lobby money trail (reason for attack on Macdonald) & tainted Sohn Med Research Conf
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/lost-hearts-...
@wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters investigate Israel lobby money trail (reason for attack on Macdonald) & tainted Sohn Med Research Conf
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/lost-hearts-...
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Ah yes, Neoliberalism is alive and ‘well’
CBA boss says repaying excessive fees to low-income customers could be seen as taking shareholder property www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
CBA boss says repaying excessive fees to low-income customers could be seen as taking shareholder property www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia news live: CBA boss says repaying excessive fees to low-income customers could be seen as taking shareholder property
Follow live
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Ah yes, Neoliberalism is alive and ‘well’
CBA boss says repaying excessive fees to low-income customers could be seen as taking shareholder property www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
CBA boss says repaying excessive fees to low-income customers could be seen as taking shareholder property www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Two Indigenous players set to play in first Ashes Test in Perth 🏏✊
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
Scott Boland seeks to inspire next generation as Indigenous history beckons in Ashes opener
Fast bowler and Brendan Doggett in line to be the first pair of Indigenous cricketers in the same Australia side
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Two Indigenous players set to play in first Ashes Test in Perth 🏏✊
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
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ABC News advances its alliance with Murdoch’s Sky News https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/abc-news-advances-its-alliance-with-murdochs-sky-news,20385?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=IA_Feed #auspol
ABC News advances its alliance with Murdoch’s Sky News
Recent programs have confirmed ABC News is increasingly under the control of pro-Coalition activists.
independentaustralia.net
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
ABC News advances its alliance with Murdoch’s Sky News https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/abc-news-advances-its-alliance-with-murdochs-sky-news,20385?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=IA_Feed #auspol
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Sanders: The wealthiest people on earth are pouring hundreds of billions into research and development for AI and robotics. You think they’re doing that because they’re thinking, “Oh man, this is going to be something that will improve life for working people, for low-income people.”?
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Sanders: The wealthiest people on earth are pouring hundreds of billions into research and development for AI and robotics. You think they’re doing that because they’re thinking, “Oh man, this is going to be something that will improve life for working people, for low-income people.”?
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Jumping forward in time to 2075,👇here’s a letter👇 from a 2025 key LNP-destructor politician (I’ll let you guess who) to his great grandchildren, apologising for always looking backwards. His letter tells a story of politics defeated by progress. #auspol
“I only looked backwards”: A letter to my great grandchildren - Michael West
A letter from 2075, written by a former right-wing politician to his eight great grandchildren. Rex Patrick Junior reports deathbed confessions
michaelwest.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Jumping forward in time to 2075,👇here’s a letter👇 from a 2025 key LNP-destructor politician (I’ll let you guess who) to his great grandchildren, apologising for always looking backwards. His letter tells a story of politics defeated by progress. #auspol
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Soooo… 1. 25 years is 25 years too late, 2. We already have all the tech we need - #solar, #wind & #batteties - we need to fast track installation & stop all new #fossilfuels (@iea) 3. Not invented yet = no idea if they ever will! Bonkers & irresponsible! #auspol
Pressed to outline how the LNP will reduce emissions with their new energy plan, Sussan Ley says they’ll rely on “breakthrough technologies” in about “25 years time”😳 - ones not invented yet & “we’re not talking about today”🤔
There you have it. As bonkers as it gets. #auspol
There you have it. As bonkers as it gets. #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Soooo… 1. 25 years is 25 years too late, 2. We already have all the tech we need - #solar, #wind & #batteties - we need to fast track installation & stop all new #fossilfuels (@iea) 3. Not invented yet = no idea if they ever will! Bonkers & irresponsible! #auspol
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This 👇.
The dollar cost of #AUKUS is bad enough.
The even bigger cost is Australia being joined at the hip with [or under the heel of] a fascist war-mongering regime. #auspol
The dollar cost of #AUKUS is bad enough.
The even bigger cost is Australia being joined at the hip with [or under the heel of] a fascist war-mongering regime. #auspol
The fools who sold us $375 billion AUKUS nuclear submarines are now telling us they will cost more, a lot more. Their war plans with China, their surrender to Trump and their back of-the-envelope costings are all super dangerous. Don’t trust them.
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Since Paris Agreement, the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada have increased oil and gas production by 40%. At #COP30, some of these same countries have blocked a demand by G-77 (~134 Global South countries) for a just transition mechanism to support workers. ICYMI
drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI
drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI
Running into COP30 with Oil and Gas
As COP30 gets underway in Brazil, a new report spotlights increased oil and gas production from the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed a decade ago.
drilled.media
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Since Paris Agreement, the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada have increased oil and gas production by 40%. At #COP30, some of these same countries have blocked a demand by G-77 (~134 Global South countries) for a just transition mechanism to support workers. ICYMI
drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI
drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI
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The fools who sold us $375 billion AUKUS nuclear submarines are now telling us they will cost more, a lot more. Their war plans with China, their surrender to Trump and their back of-the-envelope costings are all super dangerous. Don’t trust them.
November 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The fools who sold us $375 billion AUKUS nuclear submarines are now telling us they will cost more, a lot more. Their war plans with China, their surrender to Trump and their back of-the-envelope costings are all super dangerous. Don’t trust them.
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Your reminder #cop30 that #Australia has increased gas production by 360% since 2000. Stats c/o @iea.org:
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Your reminder #cop30 that #Australia has increased gas production by 360% since 2000. Stats c/o @iea.org: