Quentin Dempster
@quentindempster.bsky.social
Australian journalist, author.
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Like ‘housing affordability’ ‘net zero’ has become one of those meaningless political sayings
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Net Zero hides a truth the mining giants understand perfectly: nothing has to change
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Like ‘housing affordability’ ‘net zero’ has become one of those meaningless political sayings
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Presented with a massive side-eye to governments who can’t even equitably remunerate paid work, let alone unpaid labour.
Unpaid ‘women’s work’ is worth $427 billion, new research shows. See how much your unpaid labour is worth
New analysis reveals just how much “invisible” caring and housework is worth to the economy.
theconversation.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Presented with a massive side-eye to governments who can’t even equitably remunerate paid work, let alone unpaid labour.
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11 November 1975.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
11 November 1975.
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Recognise him? It’s Al Capone! Al taught us when demand for drug (alcohol) is strong & availability restricted/illegal, supply shifts to black market & can get vy violent. Just what happened with cigs/vapes in Australia @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Recognise him? It’s Al Capone! Al taught us when demand for drug (alcohol) is strong & availability restricted/illegal, supply shifts to black market & can get vy violent. Just what happened with cigs/vapes in Australia @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social
It’s too late George (Brandis). Andrew Hastie (Lib., Canning) has already jumped the shark. He’s joined the illiberal Faragists and Trumpists. The key question: does Sussan Ley have the party room numbers to survive this week, then months, years to the 2028 election?
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s too late George (Brandis). Andrew Hastie (Lib., Canning) has already jumped the shark. He’s joined the illiberal Faragists and Trumpists. The key question: does Sussan Ley have the party room numbers to survive this week, then months, years to the 2028 election?
“Strategic voting” e.g. Labor voters giving first preferences to “teal” independents in House of Representative seats where ALP cannot win, is now an established pattern. @antonygreen.com.au
Excellent analysis by Green on Labor voters habits in last election strategically voting in seats where independents have the better option of winning, thus giving their 1st preference to the independent
The receipts? Well that’s in the higher senate vote recorded in certain electorates
#auspol
The receipts? Well that’s in the higher senate vote recorded in certain electorates
#auspol
FED2025 – Evidence on Labor Supporters Voting Strategically for Independents
It has long been a given of Australian politics that support for the two major parties is higher in the House than the Senate. But that rule was broken at the 2025 Federal election when Labor polle…
antonygreen.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
“Strategic voting” e.g. Labor voters giving first preferences to “teal” independents in House of Representative seats where ALP cannot win, is now an established pattern. @antonygreen.com.au
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
Well what’d ya know? “Pentagon confirms the ‘benefit’ of AUKUS deal” for US defence policy. MKoziol SMH/Age. Yes $A368B to prop up US N subs production .. and Australia gets expanded US bases on its soil and is now a nuclear target in US war with China over Taiwan.
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Well what’d ya know? “Pentagon confirms the ‘benefit’ of AUKUS deal” for US defence policy. MKoziol SMH/Age. Yes $A368B to prop up US N subs production .. and Australia gets expanded US bases on its soil and is now a nuclear target in US war with China over Taiwan.
Nuremberg, Geneva, Rome genocide conventions: those violating human rights in 21C (Hamas, Netanyahu) must be held to account. Sydney Peace Prize Navi Pillay. Please note: neither Trump’s USA nor Albanese’s Australia have yet to uphold the rule of law = our moral abyss.
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Nuremberg, Geneva, Rome genocide conventions: those violating human rights in 21C (Hamas, Netanyahu) must be held to account. Sydney Peace Prize Navi Pillay. Please note: neither Trump’s USA nor Albanese’s Australia have yet to uphold the rule of law = our moral abyss.
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Excellent summary of current situation re international nuclear arms. New START treaty expires February 2026. Should be extended & new treaties developed to ban all nuclear weapons. @sanho.bsky.social @paulbongiorno.bsky.social @quentindempster.bsky.social
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If the US resumes nuclear weapons testing, this would be extremely dangerous for humanity
All of the nine nuclear-armed nations are investing huge sums in new weapons. And the numbers of nuclear weapons “available for use” is climbing again.
theconversation.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Excellent summary of current situation re international nuclear arms. New START treaty expires February 2026. Should be extended & new treaties developed to ban all nuclear weapons. @sanho.bsky.social @paulbongiorno.bsky.social @quentindempster.bsky.social
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Social media outfit Advance, bankrolled by Gina, backed by the Murdochs, IPA, Nampijinpa, Pauline Hanson, Tony Abbott, John Howard pays for what Steve Bannon calls “enshitification” = flooding a polity with “shit” - fear/propaganda. Now it’s “mass” migration and net zero 2050.
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Social media outfit Advance, bankrolled by Gina, backed by the Murdochs, IPA, Nampijinpa, Pauline Hanson, Tony Abbott, John Howard pays for what Steve Bannon calls “enshitification” = flooding a polity with “shit” - fear/propaganda. Now it’s “mass” migration and net zero 2050.
Cowardly, irresponsible. It looks like Australia’s L-NP Coalition will dingo out of net zero 2050. Awaiting Sussan Ley’s Liberal partyroom decision = leadership test. Failure to urgently mitigate emissions via new technologies exposes our children to ever increasing risk.
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Cowardly, irresponsible. It looks like Australia’s L-NP Coalition will dingo out of net zero 2050. Awaiting Sussan Ley’s Liberal partyroom decision = leadership test. Failure to urgently mitigate emissions via new technologies exposes our children to ever increasing risk.
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Quentin neglected to provide a link, but a bit of probing on the net produced the following for those interested...and we should all be interested and support such endeavours www.whistleblowers.org.au/about/consti...
October 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Quentin neglected to provide a link, but a bit of probing on the net produced the following for those interested...and we should all be interested and support such endeavours www.whistleblowers.org.au/about/consti...
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Quentin neglected to provide a link, but a bit of probing on the net produced the following for those interested...and we should all be interested and support such endeavours www.whistleblowers.org.au/about/consti...
Whistleblowers Australia membership form
Whistleblowers Australia membership application form
www.whistleblowers.org.au
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Quentin neglected to provide a link, but a bit of probing on the net produced the following for those interested...and we should all be interested and support such endeavours www.whistleblowers.org.au/about/consti...
It’s only fair: Australia’s copyright content to be statutorily licensed to make AI platforms enforcibly pay for its use. AG Michelle Rowland will consult all stakeholders and content creators. Thank heavens for the Copyright Act. 👇 AFR 29/10/25.
October 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It’s only fair: Australia’s copyright content to be statutorily licensed to make AI platforms enforcibly pay for its use. AG Michelle Rowland will consult all stakeholders and content creators. Thank heavens for the Copyright Act. 👇 AFR 29/10/25.
My fellow Australians: if you want to help the ‘fair go’ Australian ethos please join/support Whistleblowers Australia. Hair raising case histories; HR is not your friend; gaslighting; Robodebt aftermath; the abject failures of our National Anti Corruption Commission = it’s all there. Only $25 p.a.
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
My fellow Australians: if you want to help the ‘fair go’ Australian ethos please join/support Whistleblowers Australia. Hair raising case histories; HR is not your friend; gaslighting; Robodebt aftermath; the abject failures of our National Anti Corruption Commission = it’s all there. Only $25 p.a.
Sshh- Still no definitive answer to the question: would Australia’s AUKUS N subs be deployed operationally in any US war with China? MKoziol SMH/Age reports “yes” assurances may have been given by @almp.bsky.social to Trump .. but our PM won’t confirm.
October 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Sshh- Still no definitive answer to the question: would Australia’s AUKUS N subs be deployed operationally in any US war with China? MKoziol SMH/Age reports “yes” assurances may have been given by @almp.bsky.social to Trump .. but our PM won’t confirm.
Battle lines net zero 2050. Phil Coorey AFR reports Sussan Ley and Dan Tehan considering delay beyond 2050 and to try green washing (gas lighting?) the electorate with emphasis on (discredited) carbon capture and storage and (still banned) nuclear. Try harder please dear Lib Leader.
October 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Battle lines net zero 2050. Phil Coorey AFR reports Sussan Ley and Dan Tehan considering delay beyond 2050 and to try green washing (gas lighting?) the electorate with emphasis on (discredited) carbon capture and storage and (still banned) nuclear. Try harder please dear Lib Leader.
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Yes peoples around the world can see Netanyahu’s lies. That’s why there have been mass humanitarian rallies including the Jewish (never again) diaspora. Western media, with brave exceptions, has lost public trust.
October 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Yes peoples around the world can see Netanyahu’s lies. That’s why there have been mass humanitarian rallies including the Jewish (never again) diaspora. Western media, with brave exceptions, has lost public trust.
It’s a great shame our National Press Club didn’t proceed with address by Pulitzer winning war correspondent Chris Hedges. His insights into IDF manipulation of media messaging are instructive. Western media is easily played. And the IDF murders non-compliant in situ journalists.
October 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It’s a great shame our National Press Club didn’t proceed with address by Pulitzer winning war correspondent Chris Hedges. His insights into IDF manipulation of media messaging are instructive. Western media is easily played. And the IDF murders non-compliant in situ journalists.
AUKUS said to be “full steam ahead”; @albomp.bsky.social - Trump sign rare earths agreement (no details yet). Behind closed doors Anbassador Rudd apologises to Trump for 5 year old “traitor to the West” comment = diplomatic withdrawal. Albo-Trump meeting was a mutual back-scratcher.
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
AUKUS said to be “full steam ahead”; @albomp.bsky.social - Trump sign rare earths agreement (no details yet). Behind closed doors Anbassador Rudd apologises to Trump for 5 year old “traitor to the West” comment = diplomatic withdrawal. Albo-Trump meeting was a mutual back-scratcher.
A bit of welcome solidarity from US journalists and their employers with media Pentagon walkout against SecWar Hegseth’s coercive access controls. SMH editorial 17/10/25. Now dear editor Bevan Shields please condemn IDF’s murder of journalists in Gaza.
October 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A bit of welcome solidarity from US journalists and their employers with media Pentagon walkout against SecWar Hegseth’s coercive access controls. SMH editorial 17/10/25. Now dear editor Bevan Shields please condemn IDF’s murder of journalists in Gaza.
“Can I meet with Eric?” Prabowo Subianto to Trump, Egypt 14/10/25. “I’ll have Eric call” replies Trump. The Indonesian president needs to explain what this exchange, caught on a “hot mic”, was all about.
October 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“Can I meet with Eric?” Prabowo Subianto to Trump, Egypt 14/10/25. “I’ll have Eric call” replies Trump. The Indonesian president needs to explain what this exchange, caught on a “hot mic”, was all about.
Energy bills to halve by 2050: @grattaninstitute.bsky.social The renewables revolution will help conserve earth’s thin biosphere … and it’ll be much cheaper for households and enterprises. 👇
October 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Energy bills to halve by 2050: @grattaninstitute.bsky.social The renewables revolution will help conserve earth’s thin biosphere … and it’ll be much cheaper for households and enterprises. 👇
Internet TRUST destroyed: Hackers leak personal details from the data bases of 40 companies (emails/phone numbers/IDs) on the dark web. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Hackers leak Qantas data containing 5 million customer records after ransom deadline passes
Hacker collective Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters demanded payment in return for preventing the stolen data of nearly 40 companies from being shared
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Internet TRUST destroyed: Hackers leak personal details from the data bases of 40 companies (emails/phone numbers/IDs) on the dark web. www.theguardian.com/business/202...