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They get to use the Biodiversity Conference as an advertising platform to greenwash their reputations. Woodside and Alcoa were Platinum sponsors - this costs $10k and the sponsorship package says that for this horrifyingly low price tag they get:
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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finally the ABC moves this up the page, hours after the story was posted by Guardian Australia and smh. Our ABC kept a copaganda piece about police feelings top of the NSW tab all afternoon.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament allowed to go ahead by police
A neo-Nazi rally outside the NSW parliament on Saturday morning was deemed "authorised" because police had chosen not to oppose the public assembly.
www.abc.net.au
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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It would be difficult to identify a more unambitious government.
Committed to holding onto incumbency rather than doing anything big, bold, and transformational with it.
Time Albanese retire to his Central Coast clifftop pad.
His mind has already moved there
#auspol
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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First: on electrification

A new gigawatt hour of data centre demand is *materially* very different to a new GWh from newly-electrified households.

As @hannahdaly.ie points out: the former either has no benefit, or does harm. The latter almost always is a benefit. Demand growth is not neutral!
Brilliant @hannahdaly.ie post on data centre impacts in Ireland

- Data centre demand growth eating *all* new wind power
- Only 16% (!!) of new wind is thanks to corporate deals
- DCs either 0 impact or worsen emissions. Electrification only reduces emissions

hannahdaly.ie/2024-10-18-d...
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM