@rebeccahuntley.bsky.social
Social researcher, author. Mum and dog owner. Follow me for good news about climate. “I’ve got polls but I’m not a pollster”.
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“The positive news is that this year for the first time, renewables overtook coal as the generator of the majority of the world’s energy.” satpa.pe/pR6co4f
COP30 and the Paris Agreement
As governments meet for COP30 in Brazil, the debate about the continuance of fossil fuels as a worldwide energy source threatens the very heart of the Paris Agreement.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
“The positive news is that this year for the first time, renewables overtook coal as the generator of the majority of the world’s energy.” satpa.pe/pR6co4f
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A 300 MW solar farm that will supply software giant Microsoft’s data centres in Australia is now fully operational.
reneweconomy.com.au
October 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
A 300 MW solar farm that will supply software giant Microsoft’s data centres in Australia is now fully operational.
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“Electricity generation costs would be up to 50% higher if Australia stuck with only coal and gas.”
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Electricity generation costs would be up to 50% higher if Australia stuck with coal and gas only
Griffith University experts reveal the 30% increase in consumer power bills since 2021 would have been worse under fossil fuel-only scenario
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September 25, 2025 at 5:20 AM
“Electricity generation costs would be up to 50% higher if Australia stuck with only coal and gas.”
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BHP signs another massive and landmark deal to source “baseload renewables” from wind and battery storage to power its huge copper mines and smelters.
reneweconomy.com.au
September 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
BHP signs another massive and landmark deal to source “baseload renewables” from wind and battery storage to power its huge copper mines and smelters.
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Updated: Renewables hit new peak share of 77.9 per cent on Australia’s main grid on Sunday, and break through 50 pct share for a week for first time.
reneweconomy.com.au
September 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Updated: Renewables hit new peak share of 77.9 per cent on Australia’s main grid on Sunday, and break through 50 pct share for a week for first time.
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Young Australians are bearing more and more economic burden because of our failure to index tax brackets. As Ken Henry has put it, this is an act of intergenerational bastardry. We need to index tax brackets, lessen the load on wage earners, and stop giving subsidies to fossil fuel industries.
Young working Australians facing a decade of tax pain
The federal budget bottom line is improving, but it will be younger people doing the heavy lifting for the next 10 years.
www.theage.com.au
September 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Young Australians are bearing more and more economic burden because of our failure to index tax brackets. As Ken Henry has put it, this is an act of intergenerational bastardry. We need to index tax brackets, lessen the load on wage earners, and stop giving subsidies to fossil fuel industries.
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This is disgraceful behaviour by anyone, let alone an MP. You don't get a free pass for being perceived as an eccentric old dingbat www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Bob Katter threatens journalist over reference to Lebanese heritage
Federal MP Bob Katter was speaking outside the Queenland Parliament with state members of the Katter’s Australia Party about his intention to attend a March For Australia event this weekend.
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August 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This is disgraceful behaviour by anyone, let alone an MP. You don't get a free pass for being perceived as an eccentric old dingbat www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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The Global South isn’t waiting for the West to save the planet.
The Global South isn’t waiting for the West to save the planet
Many policymakers recognise the need for a change. While global co-operation has produced numerous important climate commitments, such as those made at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and those contained in...
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August 27, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The Global South isn’t waiting for the West to save the planet.
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The second stage of what will be Australia’s biggest battery to date has burst into action, helping change the evening profile on the country’s biggest isolated grid.
Battery records tumble again as second stage of country’s biggest battery bursts into action
The second stage of what will be Australia’s biggest battery to date has burst into action, helping change the evening profile on the country’s biggest isolated grid.
reneweconomy.com.au
August 19, 2025 at 5:38 AM
The second stage of what will be Australia’s biggest battery to date has burst into action, helping change the evening profile on the country’s biggest isolated grid.
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I wonder if he read the midtransition paper with @gruberte.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I wonder if he read the midtransition paper with @gruberte.bsky.social
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It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
July 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
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www.sydney.edu.au/engage/event... The Ideas Roundtable: Is Australia alright?
The Ideas Roundtable: Is Australia alright?
Join our diverse lineup of experts and host, respected social researcher Rebecca Huntley, for a spirited open conversation on three urgent and complex issues shaping the present and future of our nati...
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July 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
www.sydney.edu.au/engage/event... The Ideas Roundtable: Is Australia alright?
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If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma
July 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma
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I’ve been calling on the Govt to get rid of JRG for the last three years. This reform is urgent and will deal with the root cause of ballooning HECS debts - it makes no sense to kick it down the road while talking about cutting 20% or HECS.
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Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students
Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000
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July 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I’ve been calling on the Govt to get rid of JRG for the last three years. This reform is urgent and will deal with the root cause of ballooning HECS debts - it makes no sense to kick it down the road while talking about cutting 20% or HECS.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Energy efficiency is seen as the “first fuel” and is the main priority in the EU’s energy policies. But in Australia it remains the “forgotten fuel”, even as we electrify.
What really matters – energy costs, electrification, efficiency or climate change?
Energy efficiency is seen as the “first fuel” and is the main priority in the EU’s energy policies. But in Australia it remains the “forgotten fuel”, even as we electr…
reneweconomy.com.au
June 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Energy efficiency is seen as the “first fuel” and is the main priority in the EU’s energy policies. But in Australia it remains the “forgotten fuel”, even as we electrify.
Join me and this great line-up of researchers for this free discussion.
June 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Join me and this great line-up of researchers for this free discussion.
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Wow! Shout out to the @GuardianAUS for this alarming graphic showing the emissions of @Woodside’s NW shelf project - don’t miss this!!! www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Revealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf project
The annual total dwarfs CO2-e from many other sources – including whole countries
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Wow! Shout out to the @GuardianAUS for this alarming graphic showing the emissions of @Woodside’s NW shelf project - don’t miss this!!! www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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“The planet’s remaining carbon budget to meet the international target of 1.5C has just two years left at the current rate of emissions, scientists have warned, showing how deep into the climate crisis the world has fallen.”
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Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
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June 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“The planet’s remaining carbon budget to meet the international target of 1.5C has just two years left at the current rate of emissions, scientists have warned, showing how deep into the climate crisis the world has fallen.”
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Inertia is the new baseload: Almost every critic of Spain’s renewable energy got their blackout facts wrong
Inertia is the new baseload: Spain’s full blackout report debunks core claims of anti-renewable brigade
Inertia is the new baseload: Almost every critic of Spain’s renewable energy got their blackout facts wrong.
reneweconomy.com.au
June 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Inertia is the new baseload: Almost every critic of Spain’s renewable energy got their blackout facts wrong
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Tindo Solar lands five year deal to export Australian made solar PV modules to Vietnam
Tindo signs five-year deal to export Australian made solar panels to Vietnam
Tindo Solar lands five year deal to export Australian made solar PV modules to Vietnam.
reneweconomy.com.au
June 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Tindo Solar lands five year deal to export Australian made solar PV modules to Vietnam
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MDMA became popular as ecstasy but it was once called “therapy.” Australian researcher @rebeccahuntley.bsky.social writes about her experience of turning to underground MDMA therapy to address years of unresolved trauma, in @thewalrus.ca weekend read
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When Therapy Didn’t Work, I Turned to an Illegal Drug | The Walrus
MDMA helped me come to terms with years of trauma
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June 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
MDMA became popular as ecstasy but it was once called “therapy.” Australian researcher @rebeccahuntley.bsky.social writes about her experience of turning to underground MDMA therapy to address years of unresolved trauma, in @thewalrus.ca weekend read
thewalrus.ca/when-therapy...
thewalrus.ca/when-therapy...
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June 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM