💧 simon holmes à court
@simonahac.bsky.social
energy geek. root striker. trimtab. impatient incrementalist.
#climate200 #OpenElectricity #AEGN #SuperpowerInstitute #NoDickheads
likes≠agreement. DoB: 329.7ppm
https://authory.com/SimonHolmesaCourt
#climate200 #OpenElectricity #AEGN #SuperpowerInstitute #NoDickheads
likes≠agreement. DoB: 329.7ppm
https://authory.com/SimonHolmesaCourt
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🚨 dutton & albo have joined forces 🚨
instead of winning your vote by being less 💩, they're rigging the game.
…by giving themselves:
• $140m in taxpayer $$$
• higher spending cap than indies
they think this will kill the independent movement.
👇donate & prove them wrong👇
instead of winning your vote by being less 💩, they're rigging the game.
…by giving themselves:
• $140m in taxpayer $$$
• higher spending cap than indies
they think this will kill the independent movement.
👇donate & prove them wrong👇
like romeo, the liberal party has taken its own political life after believing a fatal lie — that net zero policies have driven up power prices.
a once-serious party undone by reckless ignorance.
a once-serious party undone by reckless ignorance.
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
like romeo, the liberal party has taken its own political life after believing a fatal lie — that net zero policies have driven up power prices.
a once-serious party undone by reckless ignorance.
a once-serious party undone by reckless ignorance.
tim wilson, will you stand up for the voters of goldstein for once?
…or will you switch support from sussanley
to angus taylor in exchange for promotion?
👇 my op-ed in the oz 👇
www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/l...
…or will you switch support from sussanley
to angus taylor in exchange for promotion?
👇 my op-ed in the oz 👇
www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/l...
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
tim wilson, will you stand up for the voters of goldstein for once?
…or will you switch support from sussanley
to angus taylor in exchange for promotion?
👇 my op-ed in the oz 👇
www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/l...
…or will you switch support from sussanley
to angus taylor in exchange for promotion?
👇 my op-ed in the oz 👇
www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/l...
falinski's "australians for prosperity" has only ever disclosed one donor: www.coalaustralia.com #CoalAustralia
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
falinski's "australians for prosperity" has only ever disclosed one donor: www.coalaustralia.com #CoalAustralia
add a home battery and an EV and most households would never need to pay a petrol bill ever again.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels
Labor announces ‘solar sharer’ program for households in NSW, south-east Queensland and South Australia
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
add a home battery and an EV and most households would never need to pay a petrol bill ever again.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
📢 @climate200.bsky.social launches:
The Canavan Climate Trust
we're cataloguing the stupidest statements by climate denying Nats.
👇 all proceeds → airing ads highlighting Nats' unhinged comments in @liberalaus.bsky.social marginal seats next election!
www.climate200.com.au/campaign/the...
The Canavan Climate Trust
we're cataloguing the stupidest statements by climate denying Nats.
👇 all proceeds → airing ads highlighting Nats' unhinged comments in @liberalaus.bsky.social marginal seats next election!
www.climate200.com.au/campaign/the...
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
📢 @climate200.bsky.social launches:
The Canavan Climate Trust
we're cataloguing the stupidest statements by climate denying Nats.
👇 all proceeds → airing ads highlighting Nats' unhinged comments in @liberalaus.bsky.social marginal seats next election!
www.climate200.com.au/campaign/the...
The Canavan Climate Trust
we're cataloguing the stupidest statements by climate denying Nats.
👇 all proceeds → airing ads highlighting Nats' unhinged comments in @liberalaus.bsky.social marginal seats next election!
www.climate200.com.au/campaign/the...
more joy for sussan:
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
more joy for sussan:
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More people need to talk about how fucking pathetic the National Adaptation Plan is.
Between the approval of North West Shelf, the release of yesterday's WILDLY inadequate National Adaptation Plan, the important and drastic National Climate Risk Assessment, and the certain announcement of a pissweak 2035 climate target, this is a fucked week to be an Australian climate advocate.
September 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
More people need to talk about how fucking pathetic the National Adaptation Plan is.
remember when newscorp decided climate science was real? it actually happened in october 2021… and didn't last a week.
👇 this is disgraceful
👇 this is disgraceful
September 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
remember when newscorp decided climate science was real? it actually happened in october 2021… and didn't last a week.
👇 this is disgraceful
👇 this is disgraceful
“[hastie] has picked a hell of a day to say he will die on the hill of net zero… millions of australians were just warned about the potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change and he is saying to them ‘i don’t give a stuff’.”
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www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Hastie threatens to quit frontbench, issues net zero ultimatum to Ley
Andrew Hastie’s opposition to net zero emissions is well known, but his provocative comments about quitting the frontbench are a fresh test of Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s authority.
www.smh.com.au
September 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
“[hastie] has picked a hell of a day to say he will die on the hill of net zero… millions of australians were just warned about the potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change and he is saying to them ‘i don’t give a stuff’.”
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www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
good @wheelercentre.bsky.social event last night.
paraphrasing:
brandis: politics goes in cycles, we’ll rise again.
young’uns: if we stop fighting, select better candidates & choose better policies, more aussies will vote for us.
🐘 in the room — the toxic nats — not discussed.
paraphrasing:
brandis: politics goes in cycles, we’ll rise again.
young’uns: if we stop fighting, select better candidates & choose better policies, more aussies will vote for us.
🐘 in the room — the toxic nats — not discussed.
September 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
good @wheelercentre.bsky.social event last night.
paraphrasing:
brandis: politics goes in cycles, we’ll rise again.
young’uns: if we stop fighting, select better candidates & choose better policies, more aussies will vote for us.
🐘 in the room — the toxic nats — not discussed.
paraphrasing:
brandis: politics goes in cycles, we’ll rise again.
young’uns: if we stop fighting, select better candidates & choose better policies, more aussies will vote for us.
🐘 in the room — the toxic nats — not discussed.
this was letterboxed to parts of #goldstein yesterday.
rubbish like this has been circulating in the electorate for months.
…a really ugly and unacceptable side to the election.
rubbish like this has been circulating in the electorate for months.
…a really ugly and unacceptable side to the election.
June 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
this was letterboxed to parts of #goldstein yesterday.
rubbish like this has been circulating in the electorate for months.
…a really ugly and unacceptable side to the election.
rubbish like this has been circulating in the electorate for months.
…a really ugly and unacceptable side to the election.
liberal party EV policy:
May 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
liberal party EV policy:
trump planning to take his DOGE axe to the regulation of nuclear power.
some see this as a path to speeding up nuclear, but it could spectacularly backfire — as we’ve seen in australia, politicisation of nuclear is very bad for the technology.
US currently enjoys nuclear bipartisanship.
some see this as a path to speeding up nuclear, but it could spectacularly backfire — as we’ve seen in australia, politicisation of nuclear is very bad for the technology.
US currently enjoys nuclear bipartisanship.
NPR has also seen a draft Executive Order that could mean even bigger changes at the agency including:
☢️ Reductions in force
☢️ A "wholesale revision" of nuclear safety rules in conjunction with DOGE.
☢️ A review of safety standards for radiation exposure for workers and the public.
☢️ Reductions in force
☢️ A "wholesale revision" of nuclear safety rules in conjunction with DOGE.
☢️ A review of safety standards for radiation exposure for workers and the public.
May 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
trump planning to take his DOGE axe to the regulation of nuclear power.
some see this as a path to speeding up nuclear, but it could spectacularly backfire — as we’ve seen in australia, politicisation of nuclear is very bad for the technology.
US currently enjoys nuclear bipartisanship.
some see this as a path to speeding up nuclear, but it could spectacularly backfire — as we’ve seen in australia, politicisation of nuclear is very bad for the technology.
US currently enjoys nuclear bipartisanship.
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Let the barrel scraping begin!
May 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Let the barrel scraping begin!
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The numbers are still in flux, says @simonahac.bsky.social and a couple of seats will make the difference between the media writing Climate200 off as a blip or a movement here to stay www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/09/c...
'No silver medal in politics': Did Climate 200 get bang for its buck this election?
Labor up, Greens down, crossbench sidelined. As for Climate 200, Saturday night was not its night. So how is Simon Holmes à Court feeling?
www.crikey.com.au
May 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The numbers are still in flux, says @simonahac.bsky.social and a couple of seats will make the difference between the media writing Climate200 off as a blip or a movement here to stay www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/09/c...
anyone else ordering supersized popcorn for the outcome of the nats on monday and libs on tuesday?
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a gazelle is looking at a bowl of popcorn ..
ALT: a gazelle is looking at a bowl of popcorn ..
media.tenor.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
anyone else ordering supersized popcorn for the outcome of the nats on monday and libs on tuesday?
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the nats are almost done killing the libs.
May 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
the nats are almost done killing the libs.
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Hi BlueSky auspollers
If you want to meet and greet, comment about the mood, scream, post a pet pic or vent about the running election night coverage - please post below
Join in, meet a few people or have an adult beverage
Let's get this party started
Here's our #BinNight mega-thread
If you want to meet and greet, comment about the mood, scream, post a pet pic or vent about the running election night coverage - please post below
Join in, meet a few people or have an adult beverage
Let's get this party started
Here's our #BinNight mega-thread
a red yellow and blue striped background with a clear trash can in the middle
ALT: a red yellow and blue striped background with a clear trash can in the middle
media.tenor.com
May 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Hi BlueSky auspollers
If you want to meet and greet, comment about the mood, scream, post a pet pic or vent about the running election night coverage - please post below
Join in, meet a few people or have an adult beverage
Let's get this party started
Here's our #BinNight mega-thread
If you want to meet and greet, comment about the mood, scream, post a pet pic or vent about the running election night coverage - please post below
Join in, meet a few people or have an adult beverage
Let's get this party started
Here's our #BinNight mega-thread
indies are facing this & worse every day at pre-poll.
➡️ misleading flyers
➡️ nasty attack billboards
➡️ verbal abuse & intimidation
all of it from liberal-aligned front groups.
we're QUADRUPLING donations to help them fight back!
chip in below👇
www.climate200.com.au/campaign/inc...
➡️ misleading flyers
➡️ nasty attack billboards
➡️ verbal abuse & intimidation
all of it from liberal-aligned front groups.
we're QUADRUPLING donations to help them fight back!
chip in below👇
www.climate200.com.au/campaign/inc...
URGENT: All Fighting Fund Donations QUADRUPLED | Climate 200
www.climate200.com.au
April 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
indies are facing this & worse every day at pre-poll.
➡️ misleading flyers
➡️ nasty attack billboards
➡️ verbal abuse & intimidation
all of it from liberal-aligned front groups.
we're QUADRUPLING donations to help them fight back!
chip in below👇
www.climate200.com.au/campaign/inc...
➡️ misleading flyers
➡️ nasty attack billboards
➡️ verbal abuse & intimidation
all of it from liberal-aligned front groups.
we're QUADRUPLING donations to help them fight back!
chip in below👇
www.climate200.com.au/campaign/inc...
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Still love this political cartoon by John Shakespeare
April 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Still love this political cartoon by John Shakespeare
i ask you to judge me by the enemies i have made and the unhinged things they say about me on sky news.
(the irony that the CEO of an astroturf misinformation vehicle would say these words on rupert murdoch’s network is not lost on me.)
(the irony that the CEO of an astroturf misinformation vehicle would say these words on rupert murdoch’s network is not lost on me.)
April 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
i ask you to judge me by the enemies i have made and the unhinged things they say about me on sky news.
(the irony that the CEO of an astroturf misinformation vehicle would say these words on rupert murdoch’s network is not lost on me.)
(the irony that the CEO of an astroturf misinformation vehicle would say these words on rupert murdoch’s network is not lost on me.)
omg… this is among @thejuicemedia.bsky.social's best… 🥇
…but beware, it's also (appropriately) the sweariest yet. 🙊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=euE8...
…but beware, it's also (appropriately) the sweariest yet. 🙊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=euE8...
Honest Government Ad | Peter Dutton
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
omg… this is among @thejuicemedia.bsky.social's best… 🥇
…but beware, it's also (appropriately) the sweariest yet. 🙊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=euE8...
…but beware, it's also (appropriately) the sweariest yet. 🙊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=euE8...
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Santos wins final approval for Barossa gas project as environment advocates condemn ‘climate bomb’
Santos wins final approval for Barossa gas project as environment advocates condemn ‘climate bomb’
Energy giant to start production at development projected to add more than 270m tonnes of CO2 to atmosphere
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Santos wins final approval for Barossa gas project as environment advocates condemn ‘climate bomb’
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Never let Tim Wilson forget. We know he was shortlisted with #AtlasNetwork’s IPA for the Network’s biggest international prize for wrecking the carbon price. That mechanism was working to reduce emissions. Don’t put Atlas operators in parliament. theaimn.net/tim-wilson-s... #Goldstein #auspol
Tim Wilson, secretive money and "think" tanks. Australia’s democracy is at stake.
Australians should remember, as the election approaches, that Tim Wilson was shortlisted in 2015 for the US-based Atlas Network’s most prestigious prize. He and his team at the Atlas Network-partner t...
theaimn.net
April 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Never let Tim Wilson forget. We know he was shortlisted with #AtlasNetwork’s IPA for the Network’s biggest international prize for wrecking the carbon price. That mechanism was working to reduce emissions. Don’t put Atlas operators in parliament. theaimn.net/tim-wilson-s... #Goldstein #auspol
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I have first hand experience with being represented by an Independent, @allegraspender.bsky.social. Authentic Community Independents are the game changers we desperately need in Aust!
Thanks @simonahac.bsky.social ⭐️
We discussed them @makingsensepols.bsky.social 1st podcast.
#auspol #ausvotes25
Thanks @simonahac.bsky.social ⭐️
We discussed them @makingsensepols.bsky.social 1st podcast.
#auspol #ausvotes25
The Accountability of Independents to Their Communities. Making Sense of Politics Podcast w @kcar.me & @nancygeorges.bsky.social, chatting about what is happening in world of politics, policy & power.
Full ep bit.ly/4lqrwEL spotify bit.ly/3RIrNoT
#auspol #ausvotes #ausvotes25 #auspolhq #mspau
Full ep bit.ly/4lqrwEL spotify bit.ly/3RIrNoT
#auspol #ausvotes #ausvotes25 #auspolhq #mspau
April 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I have first hand experience with being represented by an Independent, @allegraspender.bsky.social. Authentic Community Independents are the game changers we desperately need in Aust!
Thanks @simonahac.bsky.social ⭐️
We discussed them @makingsensepols.bsky.social 1st podcast.
#auspol #ausvotes25
Thanks @simonahac.bsky.social ⭐️
We discussed them @makingsensepols.bsky.social 1st podcast.
#auspol #ausvotes25