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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Fixing Australia’s “arse-backwards” environment laws https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/fixing-australias-arse-backwards-environment-laws/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fixing-australias-arse-backwards-environment-laws #auspol

Fixing Australia's "arse-backwards" environment laws

Environment laws that don’t stop new gas and coal are like putting screen doors on a submarine.

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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 3h

Wondering how #RogueStatesOfAmerica hatred for all things scientific and renewable have been crudely imported into #auspol and why so much effort here now goes into “2 steps forward, 1 step back”?
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China Has Overtaken America

And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social · 10h

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Trump wishes child-sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell well
youtu.be/z54ga4eimsw

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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 15h

“Australians are increasingly feeling that corporations & lobbyists are drowning out their voices. Major industries donate millions to political parties, hire former politicians as lobbyists, & shape public policy to serve their own private interests.”

socialjusticeaustralia.com.au/democracy-fo...

Democracy for Sale: The Hidden Cost of Corporate Power

Democracy for Sale reveals how the hidden costs of corporate power in Australian politics harm citizens and hinder fair reforms.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9h

“Dozens of prominent artists and cultural organizations will participate in a series of artistic demonstrations to protest what authoritarian overreach by the Trump administration.

The protests, known as Fall of Freedom, will take place on the weekend of Nov. 21...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’

www.nytimes.com

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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 13h

Think-tanks are killing democracy. Australia is next.

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The think-tanks are killing democracy. Australia is next - THE POLITICS

The Coalition is policy-lite and hostile to the idea of government. Waiting in the wings are the right-wing groups, powered up and ready to fill the void.

thepolitics.com.au

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Jean Proudman @bluejeans58.bsky.social · 9h

They know he’s a crook with the power to leave smears on everything he touches?

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 10h

Setting the “days since an Australian university admitted to wage theft” back to 0 www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908934...

Second Canberra University reports staff were paid incorrectly

Vice-chancellor apologises after $1.5m blunder hits staff.

www.canberratimes.com.au

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 11h

Our governments are already caving in to pressure from the gas industry to export our domestic gas reserves.

90% of WA's gas is exported or used for export.

We don't have a gas shortage problem. We have a gas export problem.

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 16h

Nothing shouts giving up [what remains of] our national sovereignty louder than #AUKUS. #auspol

Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 16h

In case you were curious as to who has sovereign control over #AUKUS, this overnight (Washington) response from Minister Pat Conroy says it all. 1/2 #auspol

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · Jun 6

The very reason I didn't vote for them.

When PW-W called him out over the Maungean Skate & his response was "Whaddya expect from the Greens?"

We expect someone who'll -
- try to prevent the next "Thylacine"
- won't add mega tonnes of CO2 to an already struggling planet
- won't LIE.

That's who.

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Everybody Wang Chung Tonight @wangchungtonight.bsky.social · Jun 6

Albo has become what he hated. He is far from progressive and he has never fought Tories

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 12h

ICE agents interfered with—and even threatened to “shoot and arrest”—emergency personnel rescuing an injured protester last week in Portland.

The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver recalled, “and began viciously yelling in my face.

newrepublic.com/post/201774/...

ICE Agent Threatens to Shoot Ambulance Driver Helping Protester

Federal agents swarmed an ambulance crew to prevent them from taking an injured protester to the hospital.

newrepublic.com

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RIDGE @1av8ter.bsky.social · 12h

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres.

All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing:

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

John McCarrick, the company’s new head of Global Energy Policy, was a senior energy policy advisor in the first Trump administration’s Bureau of Energy Resources in the Department of State while under former Secretaries of State Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo.

As deputy assistant secretary for Energy Transformation and the special envoy for International Energy Affairs, McCarrick promoted exports of American liquefied natural gas to Europe in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and advocated for Asian countries to invest in natural gas.

The choice to hire McCarrick matches the intentions of OpenAI’s Trump-donating CEO Sam Altman, who said in a U.S. Senate hearing in May that “in the short term, I think [the future of powering AI] probably looks like more natural gas.”

It also aligns with the company’s early moves toward powering new data centers, huge warehouses full of linked-up computers that require enormous quantities of water and electricity, to run with gas. OpenAI’s U.S. Stargate Project site in Texas, which is slated to become one of the largest data center sites in the world, is already installing off-grid gas turbines to power its operations.

“Big Tech’s collusion with the Trump administration’s fossil fuel agenda for artificial intelligence is evident in their massive investment in methane gas power infrastructure — as well as pro-gas political operatives like McCarrick,” Tyson Slocum, director of consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen’s Energy Program, said.

The “solution” of powering AI with gas is part of Trump’s AI energy policy platform. In a July speech to announce a $96 billion AI and energy funding package, Trump lauded fossil fuel and coal-powered data center development while flanked by oil and gas executives.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

ABC 730 doing a feature story on the Young Liberal (& staffer) husband of a Sky Noos (Young Liberal / staffer) person. Awesome stuff.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Jul 3

Australia is one of the biggest gas exporters in the world, but we're told to worry about a domestic gas shortage?

Might have something to do with the fact that 80% of our gas is exported.

We have a gas export problem, not a supply problem.

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

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Rum Court Rules @courtrum.bsky.social · 14h

#SFA

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Jul 14

The ancient Indigenous rock art on WA’s Burrup Peninsula has been deservedly listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Register.

But the spectacular Murujuga petroglyphs remain under threat.

Scientific evidence reveals that pollution from Woodside's gas export hub has seriously damaged the engravings.

What is the government doing to protect the World Heritage-listed Murujuga rock art? - The Australia Institute

The ancient Indigenous rock art on Western Australia's Burrup Peninsula has been deservedly listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Register.

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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 21d

This is an excellent article on the idiocy of Australia continuing to be the third biggest petrostate and how this is not even a positive in bald economic terms.

A great myth buster

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Climate risk report is old news. Australia needs transition ... to reality - Michael West

The National Climate Risk Assessment, released this week, has made headlines, but adds little to all the other such reports of recent decades

michaelwest.com.au

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 21d

Deakin University Professor Euan Ritchie slammed the target as "grossly inadequate" and said it would jeopardise the survival and wellbeing of Australians. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/907378...

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 21d

Yep, it’s official.
@australianlabor.bsky.social has been captured by the gas lobby
#auspol

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 21d

MEDIA RELEASE: SA Premier spreads gas industry misinformation

Premier Peter Malinauskas told an event sponsored by the gas lobby that a new gas project in Narrabri, NSW, is needed to firm up SA's electricity supply.

Our research, using the government’s own data, proves this is simply not true.

SA Premier spreads gas industry misinformation

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has told an event sponsored by the gas lobby that a new gas project in Narrabri, NSW, is needed to firm up his state's electricity supply.

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 6d

How do senior public servants get terminated from a role and still get a $900k payout on the way out?!

There needs to also be more transparency about the reason for the former Secretary's departure.

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908376...

Revealed: secretary was terminated and received hefty payout after sudden exit

Department under fire for being 'cagey' about public servant's shock departure.

www.canberratimes.com.au

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Jean Proudman @bluejeans58.bsky.social · 14h

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A culture of leniency. Exposing wrongdoing or protecting wrongdoers? - Michael West

Corporate regulator ASIC lets crooked bankers walk free, and the notional anti-corruption commission ignores Robodebt.

michaelwest.com.au

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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 1d

Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs is underway as the world reaches its first climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 underlines that the only way to avert catastrophe is to act urgently. Research from @sthlmresilience.bsky.social
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Widespread mortality of coral reefs - Stockholm University

Widespread mortality of coral reefs Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs is now underway as the world reaches its first climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, released...

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 19h

Actual safety notice from my alma mater:

Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses being used exactly as everyone expected

The techbros are not okay (it’s a completely open campus…not all the buildings, obviously)

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Office of Public Safety

Crime Safety Advisory:
Suspicious Occurrence Reported

Dear USF Community,

We want to make you aware of recent reports of a suspicious occurrence on and around campus. Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions. Reports indicate that this individual may be attempting to post these interactions online under the account name "pickuplines.pov" on TikTok, Instagram, and possibly other social media platforms.

While no threats or acts of violence have been reported, we want our community to stay informed and take steps to support one another.
If you encounter this individual or any suspicious activity:

Take immediate action to report the incident at the time it occurs by calling Public Safety Dispatch.
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