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michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
More gas drilling and a leg-up for foreign states, gas cartel, over Australian electricity customers. @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social takes the long handle to Gas Reservation Plan #auspol
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A gas betrayal. King plan favours foreign buyers, gas cartel over mums and dads - Michael West
The Government’s Gas Reservation Policy is nothing short of a betrayal. They claim it will put downward pressure on gas and electricity prices. It won’t.
michaelwest.com.au
December 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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richarddenniss.bsky.social
Jim Chalmers has done a good job of managing the small stuff but Australians need a treasurer thinking much bigger than “what would Sussan Ley say about that?” Our preoccupation with the size of the deficit has blinded us to the huge opportunities we face www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
The fight Chalmers has to have
ANALYSIS: Having finally persuaded most voters that it is the better economic manager, Labor is well placed to pursue an obvious solution to the problems to come.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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deniseshrivell.bsky.social
This is one of the best interviews I’ve listened to on Sunday’s mass shooting.

And of course - it’s produced by independent media with a real expert.

Imagine that!

Thank you ⁦‪Punters Politics‬⁩ 🙏🙏 #auspol

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Mass Shootings & Media: The One Thing Media Does That Makes Us Less Safe
Podcast Episode · Punters Politics · 18/12/2025 · 1h 15m
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December 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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commsdeclare.bsky.social
Excellent episode of Outrage and Optimism featuring the need for information integrity and @jakedubbins.bsky.social

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Follow The Money: Who’s driving climate disinformation?
Podcast Episode · Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast · 18/12/2025 · 44m
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December 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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deniseshrivell.bsky.social
Plenty of good commentary out there - when you know where to look. Sadly - it doesn't live in MSM/ABC #auspol
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
"Latest list of new mine proposals reveals 97 new coal and gas projects are under development" #ThePoint
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Latest list of new mine proposals reveals 97 new coal and gas projects are under development
The annual list of Australia’s planned resource and energy projects has been released by the federal Department of Industry, Science and Resources.
thepoint.com.au
December 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
For both Australia and Europe, there is still a narrow and blunt rhetorical coupling between blackouts and the energy transition, when the data centre boom is now blatantly a real and material threat to the ability of grid operators to keep the lights on *alongside* decarbonisation
AI & Energy in Europe
Explore four AI energy scenarios in Europe—revealing how policy, infrastructure, and governance will shape sustainable digital growth.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Here's @ronnisalt. "Don't look back in anger"
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Don’t look back in anger - The Shot
I’m angry. We’re all angry. Perhaps that’s part of the problem. At the moment, we’re angry at two twisted individuals...
theshot.net.au
December 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
More and more Aussies are voting independent. The response from the major parties has NOT been to ‘be and do better’, rather to rig electoral laws to favour them. It’s undemocratic! @zoedaniel.bsky.social and I are asking the High Court to strike out those laws. #auspol
Former independents launch high court challenge to electoral laws they say favour Labor and Coalition
Contentious changes to fundraising rules will keep politics a ‘cosy table’ for major parties, Zoe Daniel and Rex Patrick say
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December 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
LIsa Wills: "Why fossil fuel influence in children's education is a democratic problem, not just a climate problem" #ThePoint
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Why fossil fuel influence in children's education is a democratic problem, not just a climate problem
Australia’s children deserve the truth about climate change. They deserve to learn science that is free from corporate spin, especially when it comes to industries driving the crisis that will shape t...
thepoint.com.au
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Excellent new @commsdeclare.bsky.social work out today - read the whole thing here: commsdeclare.org/wp-content/u...

The Shell-funded education program urging students to 'design their own CCS' inspired me to re-share an original artwork of mine from a few years ago:
Activity 3 Design Challenge Use the research that you and your class have completed to design your own carbon capture and storage technology! Design Draw a diagram of your new carbon capture and storage solution. Communicate Explain how and why your design will remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Create Create a prototype of your design that you can test at home or at school. Dissolved carbon dioxide in water can be tested qualitatively using universal indicator as in Activity 1, or you may research alternative methods to test carbon dioxide concentration. and it's my cartoon from a few years back of someone just leaving a fossil fuel IN THE GROUND
December 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?

It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:

www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
Artificial intelligence and data centres Australia is building domestic capabilities in artificial intelligence. Home chevron_right Do business with Australia chevron_right Explore a sector chevron_right Technology chevron_right AI and data centres On this page Helping to power digital transformation Australian AI Industry Capability Report Why buy Australian AI Why invest in Australia Strategic location as a data centre hub Australia emerges as an AI powerhouse How we can help Success stories Incentives, grants and support Snapshot - Data centres Snapshot - Artificial Intelligence Strategic direction Industry and research ecosystem How Austrade can help Helping to power digital transformation Australia is becoming a regional data centre hub, and a global leader for artificial intelligence (AI). We are helping to power digital transformation in the Asia Pacific and the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies scross broad sectors. Our economy hosts an outsized AI industry, including over 1,100 private AI companies. Adoption of AI is strong across society, with over 400 public firms developing or deploying AI solutions. Our vibrant AI ecosystem and proximity to Asia means we are becoming a service provider for the region, with AI-related patents quadrupling over the past decade. Sydney and Melbourne are both top-ten data centre markets in the Asia-Pacific region. Australia’s abundance of renewable energy resources means we are a great location for regional, green data centres. This includes supplying Asia via subsea cables. Australia aims to become a global leader in developing and adopting trusted, secure and responsible artificial intelligence, led by the National Artificial Intelligence Centre. Australian AI Industry Capability Report Unlocking potential with Australian AI, an industry capability report on Australia’s capabilities and expertise in artificial intelligence, highlights the achievements of Australian companies in the growing sector. Austra…
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Excellent article for reminding everyone why new gas fields need to be banned and gas companies need to be taxed out of existence.

www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
Trump wants to ‘drill, baby, drill’. This Australian giant is happy to help
Oil and gas giant Woodside is expanding in the US under its American chief executive. Over brunch in New York, Meg O’Neill explains why she thinks the climate conversation has fundamentally changed.
www.smh.com.au
December 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
You really need an acid bath after reading this puff piece shit
December 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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reneweconomy.com.au
New data from Chevron on its Gorgon carbon capture and storage project shows the lowest amount of carbon dioxide captured and stored since it started in 2019.
reneweconomy.com.au
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
"Bad COP" | My new commentary on #COP30:
michaelmann.net/bad-cop/
Bad COP | Michael E. Mann
The COP30 global climate summit in Brazil may have been the last opportunity for the nations of the world to reach an agreement that limits planetary […]
michaelmann.net
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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davidpocock.bsky.social
Australia doesn't have a gas supply problem, we have a gas export problem.

Good to see the govt considering diverting export gas to the 🇦🇺 market. This should apply to existing projects. There's simply no need for new gas.
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Looming east coast gas reserve could cut prices by 20pc
Labor is targeting a domestic reservation system that would ensure enough extra gas to bring down prices but not so much that producers rein in output.
www.afr.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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richarddenniss.bsky.social
You cant protect nature if you wont protect native forests from chain saws & bulldozers

Great column by Virginia Young on Labors deeply flawed new ‘nature laws’…the ones that’s are so flawed the mining industry are desperately lobbying the Liberals to vote for them

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny
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November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
HEY FRIENDS

For @thepointau.bsky.social, I decided to do the unthinkable and just actually check whether Australia's gas exports are being a magical climate solution and displacing shittonnes of Asian coal

You know what I found, but you will enjoy me saying it:

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
This is outrageous from Keir Starmer.

‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??

news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed
The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
news.sky.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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alexsteffen.bsky.social
The statement "climate adaptation is indistinguishable from efforts to improve human welfare" is the sign that someone does not understand the magnitude of the planetary crisis we face — or how human systems actually work within the context of the climate and biosphere.
michaelemann.bsky.social Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Nov 12
Now #TheAtlantic (www.yahoo.com/news/article...) is platforming #BjornLomborg-style soft climate denial ("it's too late", "we should just adapt") in its defense of @billgates.bsky.social widely-criticized (see www.theguardian.com/environment/...) & misguided (thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...) memo:
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November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
SunCable seems to have pivoted away from helping to push coal and gas out of power grids and instead powering big tech's persistent energy waste addiction

begging you to ask: why are we doing any of this? Is it to Build More Solar Panels or is it to protect life from the threat of fossil fuels?
‘Gobsmacking’ solar farm that could power AI data centres ‘possibly unparalleled’ in Australia or world
SunCable says massive energy project proposed in NT could position Australia as global leader, but critics are concerned about scale
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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birmo.bsky.social
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Who deserves a state funeral less? Lawsie or Richo?
It’s nice for John Laws that so many people remembered him when he finally shuffled off his golden coil, even if they were lining up to piss on his grave, and it’s nice too that he died so close to Gr...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM