Wendy Harmer
@wendyharmer.bsky.social
Broadcaster, author, columnist,stand-up,TV host.
Memoir "Lies My Mirror Told Me" with all you need to know about me (and a lot you don’t)
Living in Collaroy-Narrabeen. Northern Beaches. NSW. OZ
Memoir "Lies My Mirror Told Me" with all you need to know about me (and a lot you don’t)
Living in Collaroy-Narrabeen. Northern Beaches. NSW. OZ
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Every time there's a COP, there's more highly paid, well connected and determined fossil lobbyists attedning than anyone else. It's a climate conference for sceintists and government officials.
Can you explain why people paid $billions by the fossil fuel industry want to to attend such an event?
Can you explain why people paid $billions by the fossil fuel industry want to to attend such an event?
More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém (Brazil), 12% up from last year’s talks in Baku, Azerbaijan.
What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Every time there's a COP, there's more highly paid, well connected and determined fossil lobbyists attedning than anyone else. It's a climate conference for sceintists and government officials.
Can you explain why people paid $billions by the fossil fuel industry want to to attend such an event?
Can you explain why people paid $billions by the fossil fuel industry want to to attend such an event?
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Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Since many of you enjoyed the "Gillies Report" sketch on The Dismissal... this one on the Royal Commission ('84) into nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 50's.
Tell me why we are still British subjects!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebkF...
Tell me why we are still British subjects!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebkF...
The Gillies Report 03 - Maralinga
YouTube video by Heraklitus1
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Since many of you enjoyed the "Gillies Report" sketch on The Dismissal... this one on the Royal Commission ('84) into nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 50's.
Tell me why we are still British subjects!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebkF...
Tell me why we are still British subjects!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebkF...
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“Pessimism won’t help… change is driven not by defeatism, but by intelligent, courageous, compassionate defiance of the prevailing rules. This is the key to guaranteeing the future”
Democracy thrives on high expectations, great piece by Bob Brown #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Democracy thrives on high expectations, great piece by Bob Brown #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Successful defiance is a front-foot thing. It is active, not passive.
Optimism in the face of overwhelming odds may seem misguided – but the course of human history remains in our collective hands, and change is driven not by defeatism, but by intelligent, courageous, c...
thepoint.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“Pessimism won’t help… change is driven not by defeatism, but by intelligent, courageous, compassionate defiance of the prevailing rules. This is the key to guaranteeing the future”
Democracy thrives on high expectations, great piece by Bob Brown #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Democracy thrives on high expectations, great piece by Bob Brown #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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The subversives. Sponsored by Gina, Advance, IPA, the Murdochs, Sky After Dark, preferential Pauline and the Beetrooter. Australia’s 2025 climate/energy war has just been declared by vested coal/gas interests. First capture? The federal parliamentary Liberal Party.
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The subversives. Sponsored by Gina, Advance, IPA, the Murdochs, Sky After Dark, preferential Pauline and the Beetrooter. Australia’s 2025 climate/energy war has just been declared by vested coal/gas interests. First capture? The federal parliamentary Liberal Party.
Never forget this most extraordinary rendition of the Whitlam Dismissal from the "Gillies Report" ABC TV
Still thrilled to have been a bit player in the BEST of Australian satire!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7f...
Still thrilled to have been a bit player in the BEST of Australian satire!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7f...
The Gillies Report Il Dismissale
YouTube video by NockturneSA
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Never forget this most extraordinary rendition of the Whitlam Dismissal from the "Gillies Report" ABC TV
Still thrilled to have been a bit player in the BEST of Australian satire!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7f...
Still thrilled to have been a bit player in the BEST of Australian satire!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7f...
I dunno.Perhaps Australia becoming a Republic would have more meaning.
Just me...
Just me...
Albanese reveals a statue marking the dismissal would be placed in front of the old parliament to mark both Whitlam’s speech of November 11 and the achievements of the government
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I dunno.Perhaps Australia becoming a Republic would have more meaning.
Just me...
Just me...
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“They would knock on the door, bang on the windows with their torches, shine torches through the windows. It was relentless,” says Megan, who is using a pseudonym for legal reasons. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
150 police visits in 20 months: Indigenous mother takes action after her boys subjected to ‘relentless’ checks
Exclusive: A family has launched a court case against NSW police alleging racial discrimination is behind excessive bail checks
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“They would knock on the door, bang on the windows with their torches, shine torches through the windows. It was relentless,” says Megan, who is using a pseudonym for legal reasons. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
On ya @robbieb.bsky.social
So very well said!
So very well said!
Opinion | "John Laws was one of the great radio showmen. His whole schtick was to create controversy and to bring his audience into the fold so they could enjoy his power vicariously."
John Laws was king of the airways — and he hooked me, line and sinker
www.crikey.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
On ya @robbieb.bsky.social
So very well said!
So very well said!
Reposted by Wendy Harmer
Opinion | "John Laws was one of the great radio showmen. His whole schtick was to create controversy and to bring his audience into the fold so they could enjoy his power vicariously."
John Laws was king of the airways — and he hooked me, line and sinker
www.crikey.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Opinion | "John Laws was one of the great radio showmen. His whole schtick was to create controversy and to bring his audience into the fold so they could enjoy his power vicariously."
The sooner this AI abomination flares into flame, burns out and becomes a mere ember on the ashes of the arid, infertile imaginations of the very few ... the better.
Look I’m not one of those crazy Luddites or anything, but this does seem like it could be quite bad www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Australian man encouraged to murder his father by AI chatbot
Experts are calling for new regulations on artificial intelligence chatbots, after a triple j hack investigation uncovered a disturbing example of a chatbot encouraging a man to murder his father whil...
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The sooner this AI abomination flares into flame, burns out and becomes a mere ember on the ashes of the arid, infertile imaginations of the very few ... the better.
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It’s unfair that Trump gets to sleep through his presidency and the rest of us have to be awake for it
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
It’s unfair that Trump gets to sleep through his presidency and the rest of us have to be awake for it
Always love speaking to my 86 yo Mum in Tassie ... re the proposed AFL stadium: "They love the AFL up north, and a few of them down south do too... so why not put the fucking thing in in Oatlands! Half way. Problem solved!"
That woman should be Premier!
That woman should be Premier!
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Always love speaking to my 86 yo Mum in Tassie ... re the proposed AFL stadium: "They love the AFL up north, and a few of them down south do too... so why not put the fucking thing in in Oatlands! Half way. Problem solved!"
That woman should be Premier!
That woman should be Premier!
Geez, if you love nature and our precious habitat for animals, plantlife (and us) - everyday in this country feels like a fucking funeral :(
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
‘Horrific’ mass koala starvation hits Victorian island
Distressed locals have told of desperate koalas falling from trees and trying to eat vegetation such as pine needles.
www.smh.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Geez, if you love nature and our precious habitat for animals, plantlife (and us) - everyday in this country feels like a fucking funeral :(
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Next door's are building a pool so I'm spending a good deal of time watching the bobcats and mini-excavators - like a six-year old boy.
Man,those operators are so skilled. Extraordinary!
Man,those operators are so skilled. Extraordinary!
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Next door's are building a pool so I'm spending a good deal of time watching the bobcats and mini-excavators - like a six-year old boy.
Man,those operators are so skilled. Extraordinary!
Man,those operators are so skilled. Extraordinary!
Have to admire the monologue writers/ video editors for Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Seth Myers. In blistering form.
The US has mastered the art of the monologue (Long-form sketches, not so much.)
Oh,to be a fly on the wall during those creative brain-storms!
The US has mastered the art of the monologue (Long-form sketches, not so much.)
Oh,to be a fly on the wall during those creative brain-storms!
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Have to admire the monologue writers/ video editors for Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Seth Myers. In blistering form.
The US has mastered the art of the monologue (Long-form sketches, not so much.)
Oh,to be a fly on the wall during those creative brain-storms!
The US has mastered the art of the monologue (Long-form sketches, not so much.)
Oh,to be a fly on the wall during those creative brain-storms!
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The ghastly term ‘masterplanned communities’ - really just a cypher for maximised development profit, too often in the form of a hyper-dense enclave with no genuine & dedicated public space.
A lousy way to make a city
architectureau.com/articles/Pla...
A lousy way to make a city
architectureau.com/articles/Pla...
Plans submitted for eight-tower masterplanned community in Sydney
The proposal would deliver 1,336 new homes across eight towers on a 3.14-hectare site.
architectureau.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The ghastly term ‘masterplanned communities’ - really just a cypher for maximised development profit, too often in the form of a hyper-dense enclave with no genuine & dedicated public space.
A lousy way to make a city
architectureau.com/articles/Pla...
A lousy way to make a city
architectureau.com/articles/Pla...
Anyway, made me laugh.
"Victorian Nationals MP Darren Chester — who urged his party to support net zero — said Senator Canavan was wrong ......"
"Matt Canavan is becoming like the Japanese intelligence officer who refused to accept World War II was over and hid in the Philippines jungle for 30 years," he said."
"Matt Canavan is becoming like the Japanese intelligence officer who refused to accept World War II was over and hid in the Philippines jungle for 30 years," he said."
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Anyway, made me laugh.
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It is time to stop referring to the National Party as the “junior partner” in the Coalition. Considering the Voice and now where the Libs are heading on net-zero by 2050, it is clear who is in charge. #auspol
November 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
It is time to stop referring to the National Party as the “junior partner” in the Coalition. Considering the Voice and now where the Libs are heading on net-zero by 2050, it is clear who is in charge. #auspol
For my sins (couldn't sleep last night) I re-read this from 2016... If you can access, I recommend it.
Beautifully written. Settle in, it's a doozy!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Beautifully written. Settle in, it's a doozy!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All
In “The Art of the Deal,” Tony Schwartz helped create the myth that Trump is a charming business genius. Now he calls him unfit to lead.
www.newyorker.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 AM
For my sins (couldn't sleep last night) I re-read this from 2016... If you can access, I recommend it.
Beautifully written. Settle in, it's a doozy!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Beautifully written. Settle in, it's a doozy!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
As themselves?
"Pauline Hanson, Gina Rinehart sighted at Trump’s Halloween party"
Of course they were.
www.smh.com.au/cbd/pauline-...
Of course they were.
www.smh.com.au/cbd/pauline-...
Pauline Hanson, Gina Rinehart sighted at Trump’s Halloween party
The One Nation senator and Australia’s richest person were both spotted at the president’s lavish Great Gatsby-themed Halloween bash in Florida.
www.smh.com.au
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
As themselves?
OMG, the Nationals' stance on renewable energy makes them a laughing stock.
That's if you get your laughs from an idiotic cult of climate deniers, fools and grifters.
Like the Ouroboros... the mythical snake that eats itself in a death spiral.
That's if you get your laughs from an idiotic cult of climate deniers, fools and grifters.
Like the Ouroboros... the mythical snake that eats itself in a death spiral.
November 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
OMG, the Nationals' stance on renewable energy makes them a laughing stock.
That's if you get your laughs from an idiotic cult of climate deniers, fools and grifters.
Like the Ouroboros... the mythical snake that eats itself in a death spiral.
That's if you get your laughs from an idiotic cult of climate deniers, fools and grifters.
Like the Ouroboros... the mythical snake that eats itself in a death spiral.
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Although nowhere as painful/nauseating as watching 'PVO' toadying up to all of the identical private school white men from the Liberal Party on a daily basis.
November 2, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Although nowhere as painful/nauseating as watching 'PVO' toadying up to all of the identical private school white men from the Liberal Party on a daily basis.
Tiny bit of backyard magic!
November 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Tiny bit of backyard magic!
So heartily sick of the torrent of news from the US and Europe.
V. much like to see more from Indonesia, Vietnam,Malaysia,Japan,Philippines,
Thailand etc.etc. The ASEAN nations (and the Pacific too).
This is where our future lies. We are so uniformed when it comes to our closest neighbours.
V. much like to see more from Indonesia, Vietnam,Malaysia,Japan,Philippines,
Thailand etc.etc. The ASEAN nations (and the Pacific too).
This is where our future lies. We are so uniformed when it comes to our closest neighbours.
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
So heartily sick of the torrent of news from the US and Europe.
V. much like to see more from Indonesia, Vietnam,Malaysia,Japan,Philippines,
Thailand etc.etc. The ASEAN nations (and the Pacific too).
This is where our future lies. We are so uniformed when it comes to our closest neighbours.
V. much like to see more from Indonesia, Vietnam,Malaysia,Japan,Philippines,
Thailand etc.etc. The ASEAN nations (and the Pacific too).
This is where our future lies. We are so uniformed when it comes to our closest neighbours.