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💧 simon holmes à court
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energy geek. root striker. trimtab. impatient incrementalist. #climate200 #OpenElectricity #AEGN #SuperpowerInstitute #NoDickheads likes≠agreement. DoB: 329.7ppm https://authory.com/SimonHolmesaCourt
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · Feb 12
🚨 dutton & albo have joined forces 🚨

instead of winning your vote by being less 💩, they're rigging the game.

…by giving themselves:
• $140m in taxpayer $$$
• higher spending cap than indies

they think this will kill the independent movement.

👇donate & prove them wrong👇
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · 7d
checking in periodically…
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · Sep 16
More people need to talk about how fucking pathetic the National Adaptation Plan is.
timinclimate.bsky.social Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · Sep 16
Between the approval of North West Shelf, the release of yesterday's WILDLY inadequate National Adaptation Plan, the important and drastic National Climate Risk Assessment, and the certain announcement of a pissweak 2035 climate target, this is a fucked week to be an Australian climate advocate.
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · Sep 15
remember when newscorp decided climate science was real? it actually happened in october 2021… and didn't last a week.

👇 this is disgraceful
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · Sep 15
“[hastie] has picked a hell of a day to say he will die on the hill of net zero… millions of australians were just warned about the potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change and he is saying to them ‘i don’t give a stuff’.”

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www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Hastie threatens to quit frontbench, issues net zero ultimatum to Ley
Andrew Hastie’s opposition to net zero emissions is well known, but his provocative comments about quitting the frontbench are a fresh test of Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s authority.
www.smh.com.au
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · Sep 4
good @wheelercentre.bsky.social event last night.

paraphrasing:

brandis: politics goes in cycles, we’ll rise again.

young’uns: if we stop fighting, select better candidates & choose better policies, more aussies will vote for us.

🐘 in the room — the toxic nats — not discussed.
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · Jun 12
this was letterboxed to parts of #goldstein yesterday.

rubbish like this has been circulating in the electorate for months.

…a really ugly and unacceptable side to the election.
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · May 31
why does your chart omit the 25 year period it took france to achieve the build rate in 1980?
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · May 18
liberal party EV policy:
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · May 12
liberal women are understandably very pissed off.
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · May 12
trump planning to take his DOGE axe to the regulation of nuclear power.

some see this as a path to speeding up nuclear, but it could spectacularly backfire — as we’ve seen in australia, politicisation of nuclear is very bad for the technology.

US currently enjoys nuclear bipartisanship.
gbrumfiel.bsky.social Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · May 9
NPR has also seen a draft Executive Order that could mean even bigger changes at the agency including:

☢️ Reductions in force

☢️ A "wholesale revision" of nuclear safety rules in conjunction with DOGE.

☢️ A review of safety standards for radiation exposure for workers and the public.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · May 11
Let the barrel scraping begin!
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Sophie Black @sophieblackwords.bsky.social · May 9
The numbers are still in flux, says @simonahac.bsky.social and a couple of seats will make the difference between the media writing Climate200 off as a blip or a movement here to stay www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/09/c...
'No silver medal in politics': Did Climate 200 get bang for its buck this election?
Labor up, Greens down, crossbench sidelined. As for Climate 200, Saturday night was not its night. So how is Simon Holmes à Court feeling?
www.crikey.com.au
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · May 11
anyone else ordering supersized popcorn for the outcome of the nats on monday and libs on tuesday?

🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
a gazelle is looking at a bowl of popcorn ..
ALT: a gazelle is looking at a bowl of popcorn ..
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · May 6
thanks sandy. 🙏
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · May 6
the nats are almost done killing the libs.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · May 3
Hi BlueSky auspollers

If you want to meet and greet, comment about the mood, scream, post a pet pic or vent about the running election night coverage - please post below

Join in, meet a few people or have an adult beverage

Let's get this party started

Here's our #BinNight mega-thread
a red yellow and blue striped background with a clear trash can in the middle
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · Apr 30
indies are facing this & worse every day at pre-poll.

➡️ misleading flyers
➡️ nasty attack billboards
➡️ verbal abuse & intimidation

all of it from liberal-aligned front groups.

we're QUADRUPLING donations to help them fight back!

chip in below👇

www.climate200.com.au/campaign/inc...
URGENT: All Fighting Fund Donations QUADRUPLED | Climate 200
www.climate200.com.au
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · Apr 26
Still love this political cartoon by John Shakespeare
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · Apr 26
i ask you to judge me by the enemies i have made and the unhinged things they say about me on sky news.

(the irony that the CEO of an astroturf misinformation vehicle would say these words on rupert murdoch’s network is not lost on me.)
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · Apr 23
omg… this is among @thejuicemedia.bsky.social's best… 🥇

…but beware, it's also (appropriately) the sweariest yet. 🙊

www.youtube.com/watch?v=euE8...
Honest Government Ad | Peter Dutton
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Apr 22
Santos wins final approval for Barossa gas project as environment advocates condemn ‘climate bomb’
Santos wins final approval for Barossa gas project as environment advocates condemn ‘climate bomb’
Energy giant to start production at development projected to add more than 270m tonnes of CO2 to atmosphere
www.theguardian.com
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · Apr 18
Never let Tim Wilson forget. We know he was shortlisted with #AtlasNetwork’s IPA for the Network’s biggest international prize for wrecking the carbon price. That mechanism was working to reduce emissions. Don’t put Atlas operators in parliament. theaimn.net/tim-wilson-s... #Goldstein #auspol
Tim Wilson, secretive money and "think" tanks. Australia’s democracy is at stake.
Australians should remember, as the election approaches, that Tim Wilson was shortlisted in 2015 for the US-based Atlas Network’s most prestigious prize. He and his team at the Atlas Network-partner t...
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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · Apr 17
I have first hand experience with being represented by an Independent, @allegraspender.bsky.social. Authentic Community Independents are the game changers we desperately need in Aust!
Thanks @simonahac.bsky.social ⭐️
We discussed them @makingsensepols.bsky.social 1st podcast.

#auspol #ausvotes25
makingsensepols.bsky.social Making Sense of Politics @makingsensepols.bsky.social · Apr 17
The Accountability of Independents to Their Communities. Making Sense of Politics Podcast w @kcar.me & @nancygeorges.bsky.social, chatting about what is happening in world of politics, policy & power.
Full ep bit.ly/4lqrwEL spotify bit.ly/3RIrNoT

#auspol #ausvotes #ausvotes25 #auspolhq #mspau
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · Apr 17
Why don't we have enough women in politics?

#AusVotes25
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · Apr 16
watch where #JohnHoward goes…

as a wise liberal once said:
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