Meri Fatin
@merifatin.bsky.social
Interviewer facilitator broadcaster
RTRFM | WA Climate Leaders | Boorloo, Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar
Perth, Western Australia
RTRFM | WA Climate Leaders | Boorloo, Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar
Perth, Western Australia
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Every day more transphobic trash spewing from the bin fire of the UK. Please never let Australia slide down this slope
Labour MP slams Parkrun for trans inclusion. It’s a non-competitive fun run
Labour MP slams Parkrun for trans inclusion. It's a non-competitive fun run
A Labour MP has called for trans women to be banned from Parkrun following the Supreme Court's controversial gender ruling.
www.thepinknews.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Every day more transphobic trash spewing from the bin fire of the UK. Please never let Australia slide down this slope
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Oh cool! I love that the concept behind @mlip.bsky.social, Steefan Contractor (are they here?) and @jamesgoldie.dev's isithotrightnow.com is going global.
It's such a brilliant idea and so well executed.
It's such a brilliant idea and so well executed.
May 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Oh cool! I love that the concept behind @mlip.bsky.social, Steefan Contractor (are they here?) and @jamesgoldie.dev's isithotrightnow.com is going global.
It's such a brilliant idea and so well executed.
It's such a brilliant idea and so well executed.
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It's possible she may be guilty of this crime, but it's unreasonable for her to pay too high a price for 20 seconds of action. Think of her future! Girls will be girls.
May 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It's possible she may be guilty of this crime, but it's unreasonable for her to pay too high a price for 20 seconds of action. Think of her future! Girls will be girls.
Can the newly re-elected Government actually step up to this moment? Sign the @australiainstitute.org.au's petition to help safeguard Murujuga’s legacy for all generations. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/save_the_roc...
Protect Murujuga Rock Art: Sign the Petition
One of Australia and the world’s most important artworks is being destroyed by acid gas pollution.
The Murujuga rock art on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia is a cultural treasure – and more...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
May 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Can the newly re-elected Government actually step up to this moment? Sign the @australiainstitute.org.au's petition to help safeguard Murujuga’s legacy for all generations. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/save_the_roc...
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A short monologue from me, on why we have really badly failed to hold centre / centre-right governments to account on climate, out of fear of angering them or losing privliged access.
With some numbers on Labor's climate record, and thoughts on the feedback loop created when we mute criticism
With some numbers on Labor's climate record, and thoughts on the feedback loop created when we mute criticism
Why we need to be harder on centrist governments, on climate and energy
YouTube video by Ketan Joshi
www.youtube.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A short monologue from me, on why we have really badly failed to hold centre / centre-right governments to account on climate, out of fear of angering them or losing privliged access.
With some numbers on Labor's climate record, and thoughts on the feedback loop created when we mute criticism
With some numbers on Labor's climate record, and thoughts on the feedback loop created when we mute criticism
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updating my data and finding out that Australia just had its highest ever quarter of thermal coal exports in its history ASMR HEADPHONES ON
April 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
updating my data and finding out that Australia just had its highest ever quarter of thermal coal exports in its history ASMR HEADPHONES ON
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"The grid was under pressure because of coal, not because of renewables."
"Failure of unreliable coal highlights the pressing need for reliable, clean & cheap renewable power."
Important piece from Matt Kean, Chair of the Climate Change Authority. 👏
"Failure of unreliable coal highlights the pressing need for reliable, clean & cheap renewable power."
Important piece from Matt Kean, Chair of the Climate Change Authority. 👏
January 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
"The grid was under pressure because of coal, not because of renewables."
"Failure of unreliable coal highlights the pressing need for reliable, clean & cheap renewable power."
Important piece from Matt Kean, Chair of the Climate Change Authority. 👏
"Failure of unreliable coal highlights the pressing need for reliable, clean & cheap renewable power."
Important piece from Matt Kean, Chair of the Climate Change Authority. 👏
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"It doesn't matter whether people believe in #climate change or not.
What matters is insurance companies know that their payouts have gone through the roof & the insurance companies are going to increase people's premiums.
That's just the way it works."
- @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
What matters is insurance companies know that their payouts have gone through the roof & the insurance companies are going to increase people's premiums.
That's just the way it works."
- @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
January 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
"It doesn't matter whether people believe in #climate change or not.
What matters is insurance companies know that their payouts have gone through the roof & the insurance companies are going to increase people's premiums.
That's just the way it works."
- @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
What matters is insurance companies know that their payouts have gone through the roof & the insurance companies are going to increase people's premiums.
That's just the way it works."
- @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Let’s sign this.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...
SIGN NOW: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
Sign the petition: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
December 18, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Let’s sign this.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...
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When will Australia stop approving new fossil fuel projects?
Pacific Elders have penned an open letter to our Prime Minister and Opposition Leader in the Canberra Times.
"Australia’s fossil fuel project approvals undermine the survival & security of Pacific Island communities." #auspol
Pacific Elders have penned an open letter to our Prime Minister and Opposition Leader in the Canberra Times.
"Australia’s fossil fuel project approvals undermine the survival & security of Pacific Island communities." #auspol
December 17, 2024 at 11:59 PM
When will Australia stop approving new fossil fuel projects?
Pacific Elders have penned an open letter to our Prime Minister and Opposition Leader in the Canberra Times.
"Australia’s fossil fuel project approvals undermine the survival & security of Pacific Island communities." #auspol
Pacific Elders have penned an open letter to our Prime Minister and Opposition Leader in the Canberra Times.
"Australia’s fossil fuel project approvals undermine the survival & security of Pacific Island communities." #auspol
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Gorgon CCS is the world's largest pure carbon capture and storage operation. Since 2019, it has been weakly sputtering away out on Barrow Island at Australia's highest emitting industrial facility.
You may have heard it's a failure. Do you know why it's a failure?
A long article and accompanying 🧵
You may have heard it's a failure. Do you know why it's a failure?
A long article and accompanying 🧵
Gorgon carbon capture and storage project: The failure of the world’s largest CCS facility
After decades of abject failure, these days even the most enthusiastic proponent of carbon capture and storage can at best mount a muted…
medium.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Gorgon CCS is the world's largest pure carbon capture and storage operation. Since 2019, it has been weakly sputtering away out on Barrow Island at Australia's highest emitting industrial facility.
You may have heard it's a failure. Do you know why it's a failure?
A long article and accompanying 🧵
You may have heard it's a failure. Do you know why it's a failure?
A long article and accompanying 🧵
WA carries on celebrating its best and brightest climate wreckers as the AICD invites the Woodside CEO to deliver an exclusive keynote at its upcoming awards event in August www.aicd.com.au/events/all-e...
www.aicd.com.au
July 1, 2024 at 11:36 AM
WA carries on celebrating its best and brightest climate wreckers as the AICD invites the Woodside CEO to deliver an exclusive keynote at its upcoming awards event in August www.aicd.com.au/events/all-e...
Pg 11 of today's edition of the Oz. Half page of #climatedenial from so-called The Climate Study Group. Who are they? Seven blokes who save up their money and take out half page ads in the national paper every now and then because they feel so entitled to be heard. www.desmog.com/climate-stud...
December 9, 2023 at 3:34 AM
Pg 11 of today's edition of the Oz. Half page of #climatedenial from so-called The Climate Study Group. Who are they? Seven blokes who save up their money and take out half page ads in the national paper every now and then because they feel so entitled to be heard. www.desmog.com/climate-stud...
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A Dutch corporate accountability group calls for the abolition of carbon offsetting.
It's tough to argue with this. Even the argument about the cash it provides to climate projects in the Global South is dodgy: because what happens when the bubble bursts?
www.somo.nl/the-carbon-o...
It's tough to argue with this. Even the argument about the cash it provides to climate projects in the Global South is dodgy: because what happens when the bubble bursts?
www.somo.nl/the-carbon-o...
The carbon offset industry needs to be abolished - SOMO
SOMO joins the many voices demanding an end to carbon offsets and a greater focus on real climate action and emissions reductions.
www.somo.nl
December 4, 2023 at 9:20 PM
A Dutch corporate accountability group calls for the abolition of carbon offsetting.
It's tough to argue with this. Even the argument about the cash it provides to climate projects in the Global South is dodgy: because what happens when the bubble bursts?
www.somo.nl/the-carbon-o...
It's tough to argue with this. Even the argument about the cash it provides to climate projects in the Global South is dodgy: because what happens when the bubble bursts?
www.somo.nl/the-carbon-o...
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Sultan Al Jaber's comments in this video are pretty shocking. He is fundamentally in actual, real denial of the need to fully eliminate fossil fuels from society and all the science that confirms it.
#COP28
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtZk...
#COP28
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtZk...
Cop28 president refuses to commit to phasing out fossil fuels
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2023 at 11:19 AM
Sultan Al Jaber's comments in this video are pretty shocking. He is fundamentally in actual, real denial of the need to fully eliminate fossil fuels from society and all the science that confirms it.
#COP28
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtZk...
#COP28
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtZk...
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"I am telling you I am the man in charge"
COP28 President and ADNOC oil boss Sultan Al Jaber at a "She Changes Climate" event that focuses on women in climate action.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
COP28 President and ADNOC oil boss Sultan Al Jaber at a "She Changes Climate" event that focuses on women in climate action.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels
Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2023 at 11:22 AM
"I am telling you I am the man in charge"
COP28 President and ADNOC oil boss Sultan Al Jaber at a "She Changes Climate" event that focuses on women in climate action.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
COP28 President and ADNOC oil boss Sultan Al Jaber at a "She Changes Climate" event that focuses on women in climate action.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"The growing awareness that two-thirds of all fossil fuels must stay in the ground to keep global warming to 2 degrees – now acknowledged in an internal briefing for the Australian delegate to COP28 – will add pressure on the government to step up to its commitments."
Me in The Saturday Paper today
Me in The Saturday Paper today
Inside the COP28 talks
In light of Australia’s bid to host the 2026 COP, extra pressure will fall on Chris Bowen and his delegation at this year’s conference to prove the nation’s commitment to mitigating climate chan...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 1, 2023 at 9:23 PM
"The growing awareness that two-thirds of all fossil fuels must stay in the ground to keep global warming to 2 degrees – now acknowledged in an internal briefing for the Australian delegate to COP28 – will add pressure on the government to step up to its commitments."
Me in The Saturday Paper today
Me in The Saturday Paper today
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And because y'all love to know secrets, here is the relevant section of the brief.
(H/T to @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social who helped guide my fishing expedition to learn what the hell Australia was talking about at the GST Technical Dialogue closing plenary in Bonn).
(H/T to @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social who helped guide my fishing expedition to learn what the hell Australia was talking about at the GST Technical Dialogue closing plenary in Bonn).
December 1, 2023 at 9:38 PM
And because y'all love to know secrets, here is the relevant section of the brief.
(H/T to @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social who helped guide my fishing expedition to learn what the hell Australia was talking about at the GST Technical Dialogue closing plenary in Bonn).
(H/T to @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social who helped guide my fishing expedition to learn what the hell Australia was talking about at the GST Technical Dialogue closing plenary in Bonn).
Terrible news snuck through on a Friday night
"A new seismic blasting approval was granted by the offshore regulator NOPSEMA yesterday and allows Woodside to start as early as today.
Woodside plans to seismic blast for up to 80 days off the Pilbara coast to assess gas reserves for its Burrup Hub."
"A new seismic blasting approval was granted by the offshore regulator NOPSEMA yesterday and allows Woodside to start as early as today.
Woodside plans to seismic blast for up to 80 days off the Pilbara coast to assess gas reserves for its Burrup Hub."
Woodside’s dangerous seismic blasting granted shock approval
www.greenpeace.org.au
December 2, 2023 at 12:33 AM
Terrible news snuck through on a Friday night
"A new seismic blasting approval was granted by the offshore regulator NOPSEMA yesterday and allows Woodside to start as early as today.
Woodside plans to seismic blast for up to 80 days off the Pilbara coast to assess gas reserves for its Burrup Hub."
"A new seismic blasting approval was granted by the offshore regulator NOPSEMA yesterday and allows Woodside to start as early as today.
Woodside plans to seismic blast for up to 80 days off the Pilbara coast to assess gas reserves for its Burrup Hub."
There's trouble in the Federal Labor ranks as select MP's stood with Greenpeace, @accr.bsky.social, Environs Kimberley and Doctors for the Environment to campaign against Woodside's Scarborough project climate bomb. Front page of the West Australian too.
Labor blow-up as MPs go rogue to pose with climate activists
Resources Minister Madeleine King has rebuked her Labor colleagues after they went rogue and stood with activists campaigning to block Woodside’s gas fields despite it being deemed ‘integral’ to...
thewest.com.au
November 30, 2023 at 1:51 PM
There's trouble in the Federal Labor ranks as select MP's stood with Greenpeace, @accr.bsky.social, Environs Kimberley and Doctors for the Environment to campaign against Woodside's Scarborough project climate bomb. Front page of the West Australian too.
@bsky.app seems to be the right place to post this blue sky piece of news for Western Australia. The Minister considered responsible for getting in the way of meaningful climate action is stepping down. www.wa.gov.au/government/m...
Statement from Minister Bill Johnston | Western Australian Government
Today I announce I am stepping down from Cabinet and that I will not seek re-election for the district of Cannington at the next election.
www.wa.gov.au
November 30, 2023 at 6:15 AM
@bsky.app seems to be the right place to post this blue sky piece of news for Western Australia. The Minister considered responsible for getting in the way of meaningful climate action is stepping down. www.wa.gov.au/government/m...
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Word from the UNFCCC #COP28 bureau yesterday:
92k people are registered for Blue zone - negotiations area
350 k people registered for the Green zone
This breaks all records.
Question is who are all these extra people?
Fossil fuel industry?
92k people are registered for Blue zone - negotiations area
350 k people registered for the Green zone
This breaks all records.
Question is who are all these extra people?
Fossil fuel industry?
November 29, 2023 at 6:04 AM
Word from the UNFCCC #COP28 bureau yesterday:
92k people are registered for Blue zone - negotiations area
350 k people registered for the Green zone
This breaks all records.
Question is who are all these extra people?
Fossil fuel industry?
92k people are registered for Blue zone - negotiations area
350 k people registered for the Green zone
This breaks all records.
Question is who are all these extra people?
Fossil fuel industry?
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Brilliant @pollyjhemming.bsky.social video here - 6 actually genuinely very useful and straightforward principles to spot climate scams
#cop28
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMYV...
#cop28
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMYV...
6 Ways to Spot Climate Scams
With the upcoming Annual Climate Change Statement and COP28 in Dubai (hosted by an oil baron), there’s about to be a whole lot of noise about how we’re *tack...
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2023 at 11:14 AM
Brilliant @pollyjhemming.bsky.social video here - 6 actually genuinely very useful and straightforward principles to spot climate scams
#cop28
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMYV...
#cop28
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMYV...
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Your regular reminder that the world is still not doing nearly enough to avoid dangerous warming
If we'd started in 2000, emissions cuts of 3% a yr would have kept us below 1.5C
Now, they must fall 18% *every yr* – or we have to use "negative emissions"
www.carbonbrief.org/unep-humanit...
If we'd started in 2000, emissions cuts of 3% a yr would have kept us below 1.5C
Now, they must fall 18% *every yr* – or we have to use "negative emissions"
www.carbonbrief.org/unep-humanit...
November 20, 2023 at 2:27 PM
Your regular reminder that the world is still not doing nearly enough to avoid dangerous warming
If we'd started in 2000, emissions cuts of 3% a yr would have kept us below 1.5C
Now, they must fall 18% *every yr* – or we have to use "negative emissions"
www.carbonbrief.org/unep-humanit...
If we'd started in 2000, emissions cuts of 3% a yr would have kept us below 1.5C
Now, they must fall 18% *every yr* – or we have to use "negative emissions"
www.carbonbrief.org/unep-humanit...
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Via @natashafoote.bsky.social: "The European Parliament has rejected the proposal on the EU’s plan to slash the risk and use of pesticides in half - with rapporteur @wienerofficial calling this a “very dark day for the environment and farmers”"
November 22, 2023 at 1:53 PM
Via @natashafoote.bsky.social: "The European Parliament has rejected the proposal on the EU’s plan to slash the risk and use of pesticides in half - with rapporteur @wienerofficial calling this a “very dark day for the environment and farmers”"