Voices of Wentworth
@voicesofwentworth.bsky.social
Non-partisan community group in Eastern Suburbs of #Sydney aiming to improve democracy by listening, informing & advocating for change
#Australia #NSW #Gadigal
www.voicesofwentworth.org
📺YouTube: @VoicesofWentworth5595
🐘@[email protected]
#Australia #NSW #Gadigal
www.voicesofwentworth.org
📺YouTube: @VoicesofWentworth5595
🐘@[email protected]
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Australian & new to Bluesky? Many pages of starter packs loosely grouped by topic. New randoms added to the end
A. AUSPOL
Community Independents: go.bsky.app/9etBt9s
The #Australia Institute: go.bsky.app/DnEVDa2
Aus politics & climate action go.bsky.app/B7vD6KF
#auspol
Australian & new to Bluesky? Many pages of starter packs loosely grouped by topic. New randoms added to the end
A. AUSPOL
Community Independents: go.bsky.app/9etBt9s
The #Australia Institute: go.bsky.app/DnEVDa2
Aus politics & climate action go.bsky.app/B7vD6KF
#auspol
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New study estimates that German households who remain on natural gas in 2045 could be stuck paying 10x what they pay today for gas pipeline maintenance. As other households electrify, gas utilities will spread the same maintenance costs over fewer remaining customers, raising prices dramatically.
Last gas-heated homes in Germany could face extra costs of 4,000 euros per year – analysis
www.cleanenergywire.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
New study estimates that German households who remain on natural gas in 2045 could be stuck paying 10x what they pay today for gas pipeline maintenance. As other households electrify, gas utilities will spread the same maintenance costs over fewer remaining customers, raising prices dramatically.
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Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
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Murray Watt’s environmental reforms will do little to protect the environment and a lot to benefit big business, writes Bob Brown. satpa.pe/z5mnsiO
Watt reforms leave door wide open to environmental carnage
ANALYSIS: Murray Watt’s environmental reforms will do little to protect the environment and a lot to benefit big business.
satpa.pe
December 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Murray Watt’s environmental reforms will do little to protect the environment and a lot to benefit big business, writes Bob Brown. satpa.pe/z5mnsiO
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Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements.
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satpa.pe/eJAfk3U
Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements.
satpa.pe
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements.
satpa.pe/eJAfk3U
satpa.pe/eJAfk3U
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If you doubt the power of an ethical crossbench, the Briggs report on ;jobs for mates' was created and released thanks to pressure from two Independents: Sophie Scamps and David Pocock. Scamps introduced a private members bill and Pocock kind of filibustered them into submission. #Auspol
December 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
If you doubt the power of an ethical crossbench, the Briggs report on ;jobs for mates' was created and released thanks to pressure from two Independents: Sophie Scamps and David Pocock. Scamps introduced a private members bill and Pocock kind of filibustered them into submission. #Auspol
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Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol
‘Climate obstruction’ alarms raised with museum sponsor.
Ties between a state museum and a major gas company are being questioned by a climate communications group as scrutiny of fossil fuel sponsorship gr...
michaelwest.com.au/climate-obst...
‘Climate obstruction’ alarms raised with museum sponsor.
Ties between a state museum and a major gas company are being questioned by a climate communications group as scrutiny of fossil fuel sponsorship gr...
michaelwest.com.au/climate-obst...
'Climate obstruction' alarms raised with museum sponsor - Michael West
Ties between a state museum and a major gas company are being questioned by a climate communications group as scrutiny of fossil fuel sponsorship grows.
michaelwest.com.au
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol
‘Climate obstruction’ alarms raised with museum sponsor.
Ties between a state museum and a major gas company are being questioned by a climate communications group as scrutiny of fossil fuel sponsorship gr...
michaelwest.com.au/climate-obst...
‘Climate obstruction’ alarms raised with museum sponsor.
Ties between a state museum and a major gas company are being questioned by a climate communications group as scrutiny of fossil fuel sponsorship gr...
michaelwest.com.au/climate-obst...
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Doesn't say much for Australia's security if we can't bring 40 kids and their mothers home.
Even less for our humanity.
Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Even less for our humanity.
Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’
US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Doesn't say much for Australia's security if we can't bring 40 kids and their mothers home.
Even less for our humanity.
Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Even less for our humanity.
Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
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“the overall effect, transparency advocates warn, is to create a parallel system of policy development that is largely invisible to parliament, the public and the media”.
Albo’s latest accountability avoidance trick:
#FOI does not even apply if you can disappear any inconvenient info. #auspol
Albo’s latest accountability avoidance trick:
#FOI does not even apply if you can disappear any inconvenient info. #auspol
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Who will benefit from this decision?
The list would have to include: vaping/tobacco industry; alcohol & gambling interests; those who profit from unhealthy food systems....
Who else?
www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...
The list would have to include: vaping/tobacco industry; alcohol & gambling interests; those who profit from unhealthy food systems....
Who else?
www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...
Shock and alarm greet news about VicHealth’s demise
News that VicHealth (the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation) will close as a standalone agency – 38 years after launching as
www.croakey.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Who will benefit from this decision?
The list would have to include: vaping/tobacco industry; alcohol & gambling interests; those who profit from unhealthy food systems....
Who else?
www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...
The list would have to include: vaping/tobacco industry; alcohol & gambling interests; those who profit from unhealthy food systems....
Who else?
www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...
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Huge & important win! Thank you & congratulations! #climate #auspol #fossilfuel$s
commsdeclare.org/2025/11/21/v...
commsdeclare.org/2025/11/21/v...
Victoria recognises climate in school sponsorship policy - Comms Declare
For the first time Victorian schools must consider climate when making decisions on who to partner with.
commsdeclare.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Huge & important win! Thank you & congratulations! #climate #auspol #fossilfuel$s
commsdeclare.org/2025/11/21/v...
commsdeclare.org/2025/11/21/v...
I care about Parliamentary Behaviour because decency & professionalism is proper conduct. Fish rots from the head. Elected officials must change the disgusting rabble behaviour, it's unacceptable. It gives permission for people to behave in the same disgusting manner #auspol 🧵
bit.ly/4pKUqkm
bit.ly/4pKUqkm
Community Survey: Parliamentary Behaviour
WENTWORTH'S INDEPENDENT MP
www.allegraspender.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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good morning. meanwhile in climate news that now seems to no longer exist, Tehran, 15 million people now facing water crisis and evacuation.. it hasn't rained for some time...
Indonesia, record flooding killed over 1000 people a few days ago..
Indonesia, record flooding killed over 1000 people a few days ago..
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
good morning. meanwhile in climate news that now seems to no longer exist, Tehran, 15 million people now facing water crisis and evacuation.. it hasn't rained for some time...
Indonesia, record flooding killed over 1000 people a few days ago..
Indonesia, record flooding killed over 1000 people a few days ago..
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Truly there is no mix of emojis or all-caps that can get across just how gargantuan 7 gigawatt of fossil gas is. This is obviously more spammy than most of these projects but if anything does end up built it'll still be utterly massive, even if it's a small fraction of this number
![Celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary’s proposed $70-billion data centre, designed to run on 7.5 gigawatts of gas-fired power, could raise Alberta’s greenhouse gas emissions to levels not seen since the coal era, according to estimates obtained by The Energy Mix.
Planned in an area battling drought, the project’s water needs would also be vast, rivalling the annual use of hundreds of thousands of Alberta households.
Wonder Valley is still nowhere near getting off the ground. But if it ever gets built as planned, it could pump out 25.7 to 30.5 megatonnes of emissions a year, depending on what turbines and gas are used, and whether or not it includes carbon capture, found [pdf] Pembina Institute Senior Analyst Jason Wang, who crunched the numbers for The Mix.
“It would be the equivalent of a return to the era of mostly coal-fired electricity,” said Wang.
The reversal would set the province and Canada back about 20 years, matching the 27 megatonnes of coal emissions Alberta phased out between 2005 and 2023.
The data centre complex, which O’Leary claims will be the “largest on Earth,” would require the equivalent of about 10% of all gas supply in Alberta once fully operational.
It’s still just a concept, but in the Municipal District of Greenview where it’s planned, local officials are confident it will be built.
“We’re about to pull off the largest project in Canadian history in this sector and I think Greenview should be really proud of that,” Chief Administrative Officer Stacey Wabick told council members at a budget review meeting in November.
Wonder Valley was announced with great fanfare last December, a few days after the Alberta government unveiled a new data centre strategy designed to attract $100 billion in investments.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreiaaxbhcwomttfrewyg3n24miqm4rsuwfqgcbn7yrki5xlnt7lfx7i@jpeg)
December 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Truly there is no mix of emojis or all-caps that can get across just how gargantuan 7 gigawatt of fossil gas is. This is obviously more spammy than most of these projects but if anything does end up built it'll still be utterly massive, even if it's a small fraction of this number
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Today marks the unofficial start of the teen social media ban. Here's everything you need to know.
Today marks the unofficial start of the teen social media ban
Today marks the unofficial start of the teen social media ban. Here's everything you need to know.
www.abc.net.au
December 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Today marks the unofficial start of the teen social media ban. Here's everything you need to know.
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This isn’t business as usual.
Potentially significant cuts are coming to the Australian Public Service and I want to know what this means for service delivery and for jobs.
Labor promised to protect the APS, they need to honour that promise.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
Potentially significant cuts are coming to the Australian Public Service and I want to know what this means for service delivery and for jobs.
Labor promised to protect the APS, they need to honour that promise.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
December 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
This isn’t business as usual.
Potentially significant cuts are coming to the Australian Public Service and I want to know what this means for service delivery and for jobs.
Labor promised to protect the APS, they need to honour that promise.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
Potentially significant cuts are coming to the Australian Public Service and I want to know what this means for service delivery and for jobs.
Labor promised to protect the APS, they need to honour that promise.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
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Labor wants to ban whistleblowers from anonymous FOI requests, charge you to access your own information, and massively expand what they can hide from you.
Only a government addicted to secrecy looks at FOI & thinks "the problem here is that the public gets too much information"
Only a government addicted to secrecy looks at FOI & thinks "the problem here is that the public gets too much information"
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Labor wants to ban whistleblowers from anonymous FOI requests, charge you to access your own information, and massively expand what they can hide from you.
Only a government addicted to secrecy looks at FOI & thinks "the problem here is that the public gets too much information"
Only a government addicted to secrecy looks at FOI & thinks "the problem here is that the public gets too much information"
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Our new report reveals Australian super funds could have over $130 billion invested in the world's biggest coal, oil and gas companies. #climate #auspol
That's your retirement savings being used to support fossil fuels – instead of protecting your future. Take action: marketforces.org.au/FFX200
That's your retirement savings being used to support fossil fuels – instead of protecting your future. Take action: marketforces.org.au/FFX200
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Our new report reveals Australian super funds could have over $130 billion invested in the world's biggest coal, oil and gas companies. #climate #auspol
That's your retirement savings being used to support fossil fuels – instead of protecting your future. Take action: marketforces.org.au/FFX200
That's your retirement savings being used to support fossil fuels – instead of protecting your future. Take action: marketforces.org.au/FFX200
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This is really bad!
First - it seems some kind of monitoring and/or database is being kept on community independent volunteers - and then there's the refusal to serve a constituent based on their political views.
This is REALLY bad!!! #auspol
First - it seems some kind of monitoring and/or database is being kept on community independent volunteers - and then there's the refusal to serve a constituent based on their political views.
This is REALLY bad!!! #auspol
December 1, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This is really bad!
First - it seems some kind of monitoring and/or database is being kept on community independent volunteers - and then there's the refusal to serve a constituent based on their political views.
This is REALLY bad!!! #auspol
First - it seems some kind of monitoring and/or database is being kept on community independent volunteers - and then there's the refusal to serve a constituent based on their political views.
This is REALLY bad!!! #auspol
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Australian Energy Producers donated $171,888 in 2023-24. That was $94,838 to Labor and $77,050 to the Coalition. {4136} #auspol - https://politicalgadgets.com/PoliticalDonations/
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Australian Energy Producers donated $171,888 in 2023-24. That was $94,838 to Labor and $77,050 to the Coalition. {4136} #auspol - https://politicalgadgets.com/PoliticalDonations/
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Much of the US press is not "even acknowledging that they have a role in saving democracy, much less doing anything about it."
@sulliview.bsky.social is relevant to Australia.
Mainstream media too often treats the #FarRight as click bait. #auspol
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/do-better-...
@sulliview.bsky.social is relevant to Australia.
Mainstream media too often treats the #FarRight as click bait. #auspol
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/do-better-...
Do better, Big Journalism. Please do much, much better
Low points from the New York Times, the BBC, the Washington Post and the New Yorker. And some highs.
margaretsullivan.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Much of the US press is not "even acknowledging that they have a role in saving democracy, much less doing anything about it."
@sulliview.bsky.social is relevant to Australia.
Mainstream media too often treats the #FarRight as click bait. #auspol
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/do-better-...
@sulliview.bsky.social is relevant to Australia.
Mainstream media too often treats the #FarRight as click bait. #auspol
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/do-better-...
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Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
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"It's good news that emissions are dropping. It is also very clear that Australia will have to move further and faster to meet and exceed its targets,” says Climate expert.
Time to step up #Australia ..
#auspol #climatechange #ausecon
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Time to step up #Australia ..
#auspol #climatechange #ausecon
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Record drop for Australia's emissions. What's working and what isn't?
Australia's emissions had the biggest drop ever this year outside the artificial kink in the curve during COVID-19 shutdowns, but there's still a lot of work to do.
www.abc.net.au
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
"It's good news that emissions are dropping. It is also very clear that Australia will have to move further and faster to meet and exceed its targets,” says Climate expert.
Time to step up #Australia ..
#auspol #climatechange #ausecon
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Time to step up #Australia ..
#auspol #climatechange #ausecon
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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“Five years after Prof Samuel exposed the catastrophic failures of Australia’s environmental laws, the Albanese govt has finally delivered its response. They’re calling it ‘historic reform.’ Every major independent enviro organisation in says it falls dangerously short.”
theaimn.net/how-australi...
theaimn.net/how-australi...
How Australia’s “Landmark” Environmental Reform Got Captured
The theatre of Environmental Reform, Part One of A Four-Part Investigation Five years after Professor Graeme Samuel exposed the catastrophic failures of Australia’s environmental laws, the Albanese go...
theaimn.net
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“Five years after Prof Samuel exposed the catastrophic failures of Australia’s environmental laws, the Albanese govt has finally delivered its response. They’re calling it ‘historic reform.’ Every major independent enviro organisation in says it falls dangerously short.”
theaimn.net/how-australi...
theaimn.net/how-australi...
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!