Phil Laird
@phillaird1.bsky.social
Working for the kids. Water is life. All posts are my opinion and not a statement of fact #maulescreek #auspol #climate o#renewables
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An interesting observation from @ausconservation.bsky.social’s CEO on whether a regulator OR a politician should be the ultimate environmental approval decision maker - “it’s much harder to make a donation to a regulator than it is to make a donation to a politician”. #environment #auspol
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
An interesting observation from @ausconservation.bsky.social’s CEO on whether a regulator OR a politician should be the ultimate environmental approval decision maker - “it’s much harder to make a donation to a regulator than it is to make a donation to a politician”. #environment #auspol
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Tesla's car biz (worth only $78 per share vs Tesla's current price of $402) is imploding.
Overseas sales in Oct were -33%, the lowest start of Q4 sales on record.
US EV sales at carmakers reporting monthly sales were -71% MoM & -49% YoY after Sept EV rush.
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Overseas sales in Oct were -33%, the lowest start of Q4 sales on record.
US EV sales at carmakers reporting monthly sales were -71% MoM & -49% YoY after Sept EV rush.
open.substack.com/pub/bradmunc...
A Quick Look at How Bad Tesla's Start of Q4 Is
In all countries that report monthly Tesla sales (ex-North America), Tesla's October sales fell by 33% YoY to new lows since 2022's pandemic.
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Tesla's car biz (worth only $78 per share vs Tesla's current price of $402) is imploding.
Overseas sales in Oct were -33%, the lowest start of Q4 sales on record.
US EV sales at carmakers reporting monthly sales were -71% MoM & -49% YoY after Sept EV rush.
open.substack.com/pub/bradmunc...
Overseas sales in Oct were -33%, the lowest start of Q4 sales on record.
US EV sales at carmakers reporting monthly sales were -71% MoM & -49% YoY after Sept EV rush.
open.substack.com/pub/bradmunc...
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"Something is deeply wrong with this system, when people who are wealthy are getting far wealthier...and people who don't have a lot are falling further and further behind."
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
"Something is deeply wrong with this system, when people who are wealthy are getting far wealthier...and people who don't have a lot are falling further and further behind."
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
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Senators hear how misinformation is costing regional communities real projects, money and trust.
reneweconomy.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Senators hear how misinformation is costing regional communities real projects, money and trust.
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"Among 41 nations & jurisdictions the OECD modelled, Australia’s safeguard mechanism had the 12th lowest coverage. It covered just 22% of all emissions, compared to Canada’s CarbonTax & EmissionsTradingScheme covering 40% of its emissions,Korea’s covering 56% & Germany’s covering an astonishing 84%"
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
"Among 41 nations & jurisdictions the OECD modelled, Australia’s safeguard mechanism had the 12th lowest coverage. It covered just 22% of all emissions, compared to Canada’s CarbonTax & EmissionsTradingScheme covering 40% of its emissions,Korea’s covering 56% & Germany’s covering an astonishing 84%"
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Mining giant Rio Tinto signs new long term off take deal with wind farm as it seeks to reach 90 per cent renewables share for its entire operations by 2030.
reneweconomy.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Mining giant Rio Tinto signs new long term off take deal with wind farm as it seeks to reach 90 per cent renewables share for its entire operations by 2030.
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Australia is reshaping its national environment laws, but EPBC Act reforms still leave big gaps. Weak standards, political exemptions, & no accountability for climate impacts = risks for nature. Strong, enforceable protections matter - especially now. biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
Getting the EPBC Act right | Biodiversity Council Australia
Our factsheet outlines the strengths, weaknesses, and recommended improvements to the Australian Government’s proposed environmental law reforms.
biodiversitycouncil.org.au
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Australia is reshaping its national environment laws, but EPBC Act reforms still leave big gaps. Weak standards, political exemptions, & no accountability for climate impacts = risks for nature. Strong, enforceable protections matter - especially now. biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
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A senior Liberal MP has claimed investment has fallen off a cliff under Labor, but that's at odds with what official figures show.
www.aap.com.au/factcheck/da...
www.aap.com.au/factcheck/da...
Data contradicts MP's claim investment has 'fallen off a cliff'
A senior Liberal MP has claimed investment has fallen off a cliff under Labor, but that's at odds with what official figures show.
www.aap.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
A senior Liberal MP has claimed investment has fallen off a cliff under Labor, but that's at odds with what official figures show.
www.aap.com.au/factcheck/da...
www.aap.com.au/factcheck/da...
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Dear ABC radio, please have somebody with more expertise than me explain to you why “renewables are the cheapest form of power” and “power prices have gone up in the last years in spite of increased renewables” are not contradictory statements. And why slowing renewables will not bring prices down.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Dear ABC radio, please have somebody with more expertise than me explain to you why “renewables are the cheapest form of power” and “power prices have gone up in the last years in spite of increased renewables” are not contradictory statements. And why slowing renewables will not bring prices down.
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“While the LNP wallows in denial, the govt is rewriting Aust’s most important environment law..It’s critical that the PM doesn’t try to cut deals on this law with the same climate deniers who dismantled Australia’s climate ambition last time”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labor must not partner with climate vandals on Australia’s new environmental laws | Tim Flannery
If the government cuts a deal with them, it risks repeating the mistakes of the Abbott era, sacrificing progress for politics
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
“While the LNP wallows in denial, the govt is rewriting Aust’s most important environment law..It’s critical that the PM doesn’t try to cut deals on this law with the same climate deniers who dismantled Australia’s climate ambition last time”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Australia should be disqualified from hosting the international climate conference (COP31)
Australia's emissions per person are 3X rival bidder Turkiye, and Australia is a massive fossil fuel exporter.
Australia is an out-of-control petrostate using COP31 to launder its image.
Australia's emissions per person are 3X rival bidder Turkiye, and Australia is a massive fossil fuel exporter.
Australia is an out-of-control petrostate using COP31 to launder its image.
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Australia should be disqualified from hosting the international climate conference (COP31)
Australia's emissions per person are 3X rival bidder Turkiye, and Australia is a massive fossil fuel exporter.
Australia is an out-of-control petrostate using COP31 to launder its image.
Australia's emissions per person are 3X rival bidder Turkiye, and Australia is a massive fossil fuel exporter.
Australia is an out-of-control petrostate using COP31 to launder its image.
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Labor must not partner with climate vandals on Australia’s new environmental laws | Tim Flannery
Labor must not partner with climate vandals on Australia’s new environmental laws | Tim Flannery
If the government cuts a deal with them, it risks repeating the mistakes of the Abbott era, sacrificing progress for politics
This week the National Liberal Coalition has rewound the clock a decade. When Tony Abbott’s government abolished the Climate Commission in 2013, I knew it was a political act of climate vandalism. Abbott simply didn’t want to hear the facts: that pollution from coal, oil and gas were cooking our planet.
For a decade after, denial evolved: from shouting that global heating wasn’t real, to claiming it could be solved later. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Labor must not partner with climate vandals on Australia’s new environmental laws | Tim Flannery
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Keir Starmer is right. The death penalty is never the answer for any country. It’s inhumane, costly & doesn’t deter crime. It has no place in the civilised world. Most of Europe abolished the death penalty decades ago & has been better, safer without it:
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Starmer rejects MP’s call for referendum on death penalty for criminals
www.independent.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Keir Starmer is right. The death penalty is never the answer for any country. It’s inhumane, costly & doesn’t deter crime. It has no place in the civilised world. Most of Europe abolished the death penalty decades ago & has been better, safer without it:
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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It's extraordinary that political elites here can look at average one child an hour murdered by the Israeli military for TWO YEARS, and go 'ho-hum, all good'.
What's more, if even mention this, you are an evil person, need to be sacked, cancelled, charged with wildly redefined 'antisemitism'.
What's more, if even mention this, you are an evil person, need to be sacked, cancelled, charged with wildly redefined 'antisemitism'.
UNICEF spokesperson James Elder on apartheid Israel's genocidal crimes against Palestinian children in Gaza. "Now we havr 20,000 children reportedly killed. It’s a girl or a boy every hour for two years. Every hour.
It’s 1000 babies killed before their first birthday."
#GazaGenocide
It’s 1000 babies killed before their first birthday."
#GazaGenocide
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
It's extraordinary that political elites here can look at average one child an hour murdered by the Israeli military for TWO YEARS, and go 'ho-hum, all good'.
What's more, if even mention this, you are an evil person, need to be sacked, cancelled, charged with wildly redefined 'antisemitism'.
What's more, if even mention this, you are an evil person, need to be sacked, cancelled, charged with wildly redefined 'antisemitism'.
Pull the other one
Liberal Party shun net zero but still committed to emissions reduction
Liberal Party shun net zero but still committed to emissions reduction
The Federal Liberal party has spectacularly dumped its support for the target of net zero emissions by 2050. After marathon consultations inside her party, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has moved to alleviate leadership pressure triggering the breakdown of four years of bipartisanship on the policy.
www.sbs.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Pull the other one
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Chinese and EU emissions were more or less flat in 2025 (Chinese emissions may have actually declined slightly, but its too early to know for sure: www.carbonbrief.org/...).
US emissions increases drove much of the increase in global emissions in 2025.
US emissions increases drove much of the increase in global emissions in 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Chinese and EU emissions were more or less flat in 2025 (Chinese emissions may have actually declined slightly, but its too early to know for sure: www.carbonbrief.org/...).
US emissions increases drove much of the increase in global emissions in 2025.
US emissions increases drove much of the increase in global emissions in 2025.
#NatZero How’s Murray Watt and the Labour Govt going to do deals with the coal-ition on Environmental Legislation without losing serious credibility now? #climate #auspol #epbc #watertrigger
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
#NatZero How’s Murray Watt and the Labour Govt going to do deals with the coal-ition on Environmental Legislation without losing serious credibility now? #climate #auspol #epbc #watertrigger
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The Coalition signed Australia to the Paris Agreement in 2016 & set Australia’s net zero by 2050 target in 2021. Asked if she was worried about the planet for her 6 grandchildren, Sussan Ley blamed Labor for "the world they’re set to inherit". #auspol au.news.yahoo.com/details-secr...
‘Since WWII’: Ley’s wild net zero claim
Sussan Ley has made a wild claim about the living standards of younger Australians as the debate about net zero reaches a head in Canberra.
au.news.yahoo.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The Coalition signed Australia to the Paris Agreement in 2016 & set Australia’s net zero by 2050 target in 2021. Asked if she was worried about the planet for her 6 grandchildren, Sussan Ley blamed Labor for "the world they’re set to inherit". #auspol au.news.yahoo.com/details-secr...
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Hey Dan Tehan we don’t ’bring all our natural resources to bear’ because some of those resources [coal] are killing the fucking planet you prize idiot. 🙄 #ABC730
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Hey Dan Tehan we don’t ’bring all our natural resources to bear’ because some of those resources [coal] are killing the fucking planet you prize idiot. 🙄 #ABC730
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This is the correct question
There were cops present, watching & listening to the nazis as they broke laws around hate speech & inciting hate. Were they instructed not to intervene .... with bats, pepper spray & arrests .... like they do with climate change or anti genocide protesters??
What instructions were they given ??
What instructions were they given ??
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
This is the correct question
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CCS magick! Subsidised coal! Private mini nukes!
It's all just made up and will never even have to try and survive contact with the reality of an actual political or investment decision. But let's keep talking about it for weeks like it matters!
It's all just made up and will never even have to try and survive contact with the reality of an actual political or investment decision. But let's keep talking about it for weeks like it matters!
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
CCS magick! Subsidised coal! Private mini nukes!
It's all just made up and will never even have to try and survive contact with the reality of an actual political or investment decision. But let's keep talking about it for weeks like it matters!
It's all just made up and will never even have to try and survive contact with the reality of an actual political or investment decision. But let's keep talking about it for weeks like it matters!
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In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat.
They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.
This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.
This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat.
They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.
This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.
This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
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Outgoing RSL President Greg Melick needs to appreciate that it is Defence leadership, as much as Govt, that have WASTED tens of billions on failed projects (e.g. $4B to NOT buy French subs) and who proposed/support opulent risky projects such as #AUKUS subs. 1/2 #auspol
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Failed projects leave our uniformed sons and daughters on the battlefield with old capabilities, and fighting obsolescence and defects instead of the enemy. Changes to Defence procurement are needed before we throw more money at Defence. 2/2 #auspol
Dumb Ways to Buy: Defence "shambles" unveiled - former submariner and senator Rex Patrick - Michael West
"The AUKUS nuclear submarine project will bleed the Australian Defence Force white", on top of the billions in annual Defence spending waste
michaelwest.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Failed projects leave our uniformed sons and daughters on the battlefield with old capabilities, and fighting obsolescence and defects instead of the enemy. Changes to Defence procurement are needed before we throw more money at Defence. 2/2 #auspol