Dave S - Visible Federal ICAC Now!
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Engineer & News Junkie.
Climate Action Now!
Against labour casualisation & privatisation of monopolies.
Integrity
Tesla model 3 owner powered by solar - before Elmo went mad
Climate Action Now!
Against labour casualisation & privatisation of monopolies.
Integrity
Tesla model 3 owner powered by solar - before Elmo went mad
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A reminder Japan on-sells more Australian gas to other countries than is consumed on the entire East Coast of Australia.
We don't need *more* gas, we need to tax our gas exports properly
We don't need *more* gas, we need to tax our gas exports properly
December 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
A reminder Japan on-sells more Australian gas to other countries than is consumed on the entire East Coast of Australia.
We don't need *more* gas, we need to tax our gas exports properly
We don't need *more* gas, we need to tax our gas exports properly
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The Albanese govt is considering an East Coast gas reservation policy. And ok... but how about putting a 25% tax of gas exports so we stop giving it away for free?
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The Albanese govt is considering an East Coast gas reservation policy. And ok... but how about putting a 25% tax of gas exports so we stop giving it away for free?
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Eek! 😬 Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global
theconversation.com/storms-in-th...
theconversation.com/storms-in-th...
Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global
The Southern Ocean is the engine room of global heat and carbon uptake – and it’s changing faster and more dramatically than we thought.
theconversation.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Eek! 😬 Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global
theconversation.com/storms-in-th...
theconversation.com/storms-in-th...
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Grid operator: if this extra technology isn't built before a coal plant shuts down, we may have to take some extra actions to ensure blackouts do not happen
political reporter: "COAL SHUTDOWN WILL CAUSE BLACKOUTS", GRID OPERATOR SCREAMS IN BLOOD-CURDLING WARNING
www.aemo.com.au/-/media/file...
political reporter: "COAL SHUTDOWN WILL CAUSE BLACKOUTS", GRID OPERATOR SCREAMS IN BLOOD-CURDLING WARNING
www.aemo.com.au/-/media/file...
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Grid operator: if this extra technology isn't built before a coal plant shuts down, we may have to take some extra actions to ensure blackouts do not happen
political reporter: "COAL SHUTDOWN WILL CAUSE BLACKOUTS", GRID OPERATOR SCREAMS IN BLOOD-CURDLING WARNING
www.aemo.com.au/-/media/file...
political reporter: "COAL SHUTDOWN WILL CAUSE BLACKOUTS", GRID OPERATOR SCREAMS IN BLOOD-CURDLING WARNING
www.aemo.com.au/-/media/file...
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Don't you think the public has a reasonable expectation that the Commissioner of the NACC being paid well above $800,000 would consider this a full time job and not also seek to freelance outside of it?
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Don't you think the public has a reasonable expectation that the Commissioner of the NACC being paid well above $800,000 would consider this a full time job and not also seek to freelance outside of it?
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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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The cost.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The cost.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
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November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It’s kinda amusing: ‘progressive media’ has tried for years and failed. Now it’s the turn of the federal coalition … you can’t appease the right. You will never give them enough. They don’t want to make peace, they want to destroy you. They hate you.
November 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It’s kinda amusing: ‘progressive media’ has tried for years and failed. Now it’s the turn of the federal coalition … you can’t appease the right. You will never give them enough. They don’t want to make peace, they want to destroy you. They hate you.
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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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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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As COP30 begins, here's a gentle reminder that well-intentioned half measures aren't going to solve the climate crisis. The era of fossil fuels must come to an end. My latest in The Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
As COP30 begins, here's a gentle reminder that well-intentioned half measures aren't going to solve the climate crisis. The era of fossil fuels must come to an end. My latest in The Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How did Whitlam's government profoundly change Australia in less than three years despite being shambolic and scandal-prone?
#AUListen #DemocracySausage The vista of the new 🎙️Troy Bramston @markgkenny.bsky.social @marijataflaga.bsky.social
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#AUListen #DemocracySausage The vista of the new 🎙️Troy Bramston @markgkenny.bsky.social @marijataflaga.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 5:46 AM
How did Whitlam's government profoundly change Australia in less than three years despite being shambolic and scandal-prone?
#AUListen #DemocracySausage The vista of the new 🎙️Troy Bramston @markgkenny.bsky.social @marijataflaga.bsky.social
Listen Now ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra....
#AUListen #DemocracySausage The vista of the new 🎙️Troy Bramston @markgkenny.bsky.social @marijataflaga.bsky.social
Listen Now ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra....
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Contortions.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Contortions.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
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deeply wild clip of a fossil fuel economist on norway's state broadcaster claiming
- 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with"
- Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare
- We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels
- 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with"
- Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare
- We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
deeply wild clip of a fossil fuel economist on norway's state broadcaster claiming
- 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with"
- Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare
- We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels
- 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with"
- Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare
- We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels
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The electorate voted for a senate that has a majority of ALP and Greens.
Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies.
This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.
Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies.
This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.
I’m getting weary of this. This government is representative of what the people of this place want. The argument is with all of us. Turning it into a constant personalised political snipe belittles the nature of the problem.
Thanks to Murray and his ALP pals, weather reports like this will become increasingly scary and weird
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The electorate voted for a senate that has a majority of ALP and Greens.
Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies.
This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.
Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies.
This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.
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Do listen in. It became quite, ahem, heated.
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Listen on your favourite podcast platform: www.lnk.to/AQOSClimateBB
October 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Do listen in. It became quite, ahem, heated.
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Ed Husic, Labor MP, made some great points on Afternoon Briefing yesterday.
"The reason why prices are so high is because we export a phenomenal amount of gas."
We can remedy supply constraints without opening new gas projects by diverting uncontracted gas to the domestic market.
"The reason why prices are so high is because we export a phenomenal amount of gas."
We can remedy supply constraints without opening new gas projects by diverting uncontracted gas to the domestic market.
October 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Ed Husic, Labor MP, made some great points on Afternoon Briefing yesterday.
"The reason why prices are so high is because we export a phenomenal amount of gas."
We can remedy supply constraints without opening new gas projects by diverting uncontracted gas to the domestic market.
"The reason why prices are so high is because we export a phenomenal amount of gas."
We can remedy supply constraints without opening new gas projects by diverting uncontracted gas to the domestic market.
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David Pope in Canberra Times
October 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
David Pope in Canberra Times
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Nice piece by Julian Spector on how one of the largest American HVAC manufacturers is integrating batteries into its residential heat pumps and ACs. It's a great idea, but success depends substantially on utility regulators recognizing (and paying for) its value in avoiding poles-and-wires spending.
Legacy air-conditioning giant Carrier has a simple solution to ACs stressing the grid: Pair them with a battery that charges up when power demand is low.
Here’s how it’s testing the concept.
Here’s how it’s testing the concept.
Carrier wants to pair batteries with air conditioners to help the grid
Utilities are struggling to meet demand as AI data centers surge. Equipping air conditioners with batteries could be an easy and hugely scalable way to…
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September 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Nice piece by Julian Spector on how one of the largest American HVAC manufacturers is integrating batteries into its residential heat pumps and ACs. It's a great idea, but success depends substantially on utility regulators recognizing (and paying for) its value in avoiding poles-and-wires spending.
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David Rowe well...that's settled..
Financial Review
Financial Review
September 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
David Rowe well...that's settled..
Financial Review
Financial Review
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Far right journo Chris Uhlmann on #SkyAfterDark tells Peta Credlin that just bcoz he believes climate change is “the largest scare campaign in human history”, it doesn’t give people a right to label him a climate denier or to say that he’s “denying the science.”
Yes it does.
Yes it does.
September 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Far right journo Chris Uhlmann on #SkyAfterDark tells Peta Credlin that just bcoz he believes climate change is “the largest scare campaign in human history”, it doesn’t give people a right to label him a climate denier or to say that he’s “denying the science.”
Yes it does.
Yes it does.
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Easily the best and most Australian analogy ever. Shutting down a racist at the same time is just the cherry on top.😎
September 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Easily the best and most Australian analogy ever. Shutting down a racist at the same time is just the cherry on top.😎