Barry Steele
@barrysteeleau.bsky.social
Retired old Democratic Socialist
Call me Comrade
Ex farm worker, layabout, fisherman, scientist, geospatial consultant, company owner, CIO,CTO, cleaner
It was better to be 20 in the 70's than 70 in the 20's
Rich Countries Shouldn't have poor people
Call me Comrade
Ex farm worker, layabout, fisherman, scientist, geospatial consultant, company owner, CIO,CTO, cleaner
It was better to be 20 in the 70's than 70 in the 20's
Rich Countries Shouldn't have poor people
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“The solar panels, battery works, and overall site progress show the scale and pace of one of Australia’s first 100% publicly owned utility-scale renewable energy projects,”
#RenewableEnergy
#auspol
reneweconomy.com.au/all-212296-p...
#RenewableEnergy
#auspol
reneweconomy.com.au/all-212296-p...
reneweconomy.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“The solar panels, battery works, and overall site progress show the scale and pace of one of Australia’s first 100% publicly owned utility-scale renewable energy projects,”
#RenewableEnergy
#auspol
reneweconomy.com.au/all-212296-p...
#RenewableEnergy
#auspol
reneweconomy.com.au/all-212296-p...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Hypocrisy and the Modern @australianlabor.bsky.social are synonymous these days
They live for #CorporateService
We need a little focused democratic socialist party like the constitution of this one-
www.alp.org.au/media/3572/a...
They live for #CorporateService
We need a little focused democratic socialist party like the constitution of this one-
www.alp.org.au/media/3572/a...
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Hypocrisy and the Modern @australianlabor.bsky.social are synonymous these days
They live for #CorporateService
We need a little focused democratic socialist party like the constitution of this one-
www.alp.org.au/media/3572/a...
They live for #CorporateService
We need a little focused democratic socialist party like the constitution of this one-
www.alp.org.au/media/3572/a...
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Nationwide protest: Free Palestine, the genocide continues https://www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1443/news/nationwide-protest-free-palestine-genocide-continues #auspol
Nationwide protest: Free Palestine, the genocide continues
Join protests across the country on December 7 to condemn the continued genocide in Gaza. Send rally details to [email protected] and we’ll add them to this list.
www.greenleft.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Nationwide protest: Free Palestine, the genocide continues https://www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1443/news/nationwide-protest-free-palestine-genocide-continues #auspol
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Point: If you ask people why they voted the way they did, after the event, and give them a menu of political wonk 'likely reasons' to choose from, you're probably not going to get to the nub. Something major changed in #Auspol, quite suddenly, and they appear to have missed it.
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Point: If you ask people why they voted the way they did, after the event, and give them a menu of political wonk 'likely reasons' to choose from, you're probably not going to get to the nub. Something major changed in #Auspol, quite suddenly, and they appear to have missed it.
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Is oral health a priority for the Albanese Government? Apparently not… – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/is-oral-heal...
#AusPol
#AusPol
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Is oral health a priority for the Albanese Government? Apparently not… – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/is-oral-heal...
#AusPol
#AusPol
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Carney: We know that this decades-long process of our ever-closer economic relationship between Canada and the US has ended. And as a consequence of that, many of our strengths have become our vulnerabilities, particularly in those industries that are most tightly integrated with the US….
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Another bullshit #CCS project fails
Fake Offsets and this insane CCS fantasy need to end immediately and with no assistance given again
Accounting scams brought us Neoliberalism and Failed Neoclassical Economics and Nearly Universal Suffering for the humans that produce the "wealth"
#auspol
Fake Offsets and this insane CCS fantasy need to end immediately and with no assistance given again
Accounting scams brought us Neoliberalism and Failed Neoclassical Economics and Nearly Universal Suffering for the humans that produce the "wealth"
#auspol
Regime admits its wishful thinking won't work, and its now only meeting its carbon budget by an accounting scam www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Cancelled Kapuni carbon storage scheme scrapped from national emissions plan
Despite a raft of climate policy cuts, the country is still on track to narrowly meet its greenhouse gas budget - but not a 2030 methane target set in law.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Labor, like the Liberals, have sold our climate ambition out to the coal and gas lobbyists.
Beyond that, it’s likely the true numbers are even worse given the report seems to have excluded pricing in Queensland’s decision to keep coal in the energy mix for a decade longer.
Beyond that, it’s likely the true numbers are even worse given the report seems to have excluded pricing in Queensland’s decision to keep coal in the energy mix for a decade longer.
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Labor, like the Liberals, have sold our climate ambition out to the coal and gas lobbyists.
Beyond that, it’s likely the true numbers are even worse given the report seems to have excluded pricing in Queensland’s decision to keep coal in the energy mix for a decade longer.
Beyond that, it’s likely the true numbers are even worse given the report seems to have excluded pricing in Queensland’s decision to keep coal in the energy mix for a decade longer.
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Add this to the CSIRO cuts and uni cuts generally and the picture is unmistakable
The success rate for NHMRC Ideas Grants announced yesterday was just over 8%. That means 11 of every 12 people who applied got rejected. This is a culture changing level of rejection and frankly a point of national shame. This is a crisis for research.
I will not rest until we see this resolved.
I will not rest until we see this resolved.
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Add this to the CSIRO cuts and uni cuts generally and the picture is unmistakable
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How Trump tried to sell Ukraine a diplomatic debacle https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/how-the-trump-administration-tried-to-sell-ukraine-a-diplomatic-debacle #auspol
How Trump tried to sell Ukraine a diplomatic debacle
Two rival peace proposals for Ukraine have emerged – one from the US, echoing long-standing Russian demands, and another from Europe. Kyiv has rejected the US plan as written, insisting its sovereignty cannot be bargained away.
johnmenadue.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
How Trump tried to sell Ukraine a diplomatic debacle https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/how-the-trump-administration-tried-to-sell-ukraine-a-diplomatic-debacle #auspol
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Paraphrasing #qt answer from @australianlabor.bsky.social Govt’s gas Czar, Madeleine King re no domestic gas priority by Santos:
…since Santos joint venture invested over a billion dollars in its Gladstone Gas Hub it should have unfettered access to Australian gas.
Make of it as you will
#auspol
…since Santos joint venture invested over a billion dollars in its Gladstone Gas Hub it should have unfettered access to Australian gas.
Make of it as you will
#auspol
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Paraphrasing #qt answer from @australianlabor.bsky.social Govt’s gas Czar, Madeleine King re no domestic gas priority by Santos:
…since Santos joint venture invested over a billion dollars in its Gladstone Gas Hub it should have unfettered access to Australian gas.
Make of it as you will
#auspol
…since Santos joint venture invested over a billion dollars in its Gladstone Gas Hub it should have unfettered access to Australian gas.
Make of it as you will
#auspol
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What a joke. @albomp.bsky.social reform #QT?? He is not the bloke who will make big changes. Such a disappointment. #auspol
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
What a joke. @albomp.bsky.social reform #QT?? He is not the bloke who will make big changes. Such a disappointment. #auspol
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The captured @australianlabor.bsky.social have done nothing to implement any of the recommendations from the Murphy report. The only thing that’s standing in the way is the weasel @albomp.bsky.social gov’s own selfish interests. Wouldn’t want to upset the donors, or a cushy job would you?
#Auspol
#Auspol
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The captured @australianlabor.bsky.social have done nothing to implement any of the recommendations from the Murphy report. The only thing that’s standing in the way is the weasel @albomp.bsky.social gov’s own selfish interests. Wouldn’t want to upset the donors, or a cushy job would you?
#Auspol
#Auspol
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BUT we are STILL a leading exporter of #FossilFuels and the fact that they are burnt elsewhere affects our #climate. #auspol
The biggest annual drop in #Australia’s #greenhouse gas emissions outside the #COVID19 pandemic has been driven by record output from #renewable energy that is squeezing more #coal and #gas out of the power grid. 2.2% emissions drop in the year to June 30. #Auspol
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Australia records biggest annual drop in emissions outside pandemic
Record output from renewable energy means emissions from coal plants are down as Australia’s greenhouse output has fallen for the first time in years.
www.theage.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
BUT we are STILL a leading exporter of #FossilFuels and the fact that they are burnt elsewhere affects our #climate. #auspol
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This from Bob Brown about the changes to national environment laws via the deal struck between The Greens and Labor today.
#auspol #environment
#auspol #environment
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
This from Bob Brown about the changes to national environment laws via the deal struck between The Greens and Labor today.
#auspol #environment
#auspol #environment
Fucked Up Democracy
WTAF - it's the DUOPOLY
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Fucked Up Democracy
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🚨Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal is steadfastly refusing to condemn the NSW Parliament neo-Nazi rally. Paid over $1,000 a day by taxpayers but MIA since far-right Advance scandal over four months ago... theklaxon.com.au/wheres-jilli...
Where's Jillian Segal? Over $1,000-a-day but MIA - The Klaxon
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal — whose family bankrolls far-right group “Advance” — is refusing to denounce the neo-Nazi rally held outside NSW Parliament House.
theklaxon.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
🚨Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal is steadfastly refusing to condemn the NSW Parliament neo-Nazi rally. Paid over $1,000 a day by taxpayers but MIA since far-right Advance scandal over four months ago... theklaxon.com.au/wheres-jilli...
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A PM who is not ‘teachable’ is not good for the nation.
We have arrived at that point.
@albomp.bsky.social is deeply institutionalised, stubborn, and set in his ways.
His paternalistic politics is not conducive to transformational policies.
His #qt performances demonstrate he has a tin ear
#auspol
We have arrived at that point.
@albomp.bsky.social is deeply institutionalised, stubborn, and set in his ways.
His paternalistic politics is not conducive to transformational policies.
His #qt performances demonstrate he has a tin ear
#auspol
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 AM
A PM who is not ‘teachable’ is not good for the nation.
We have arrived at that point.
@albomp.bsky.social is deeply institutionalised, stubborn, and set in his ways.
His paternalistic politics is not conducive to transformational policies.
His #qt performances demonstrate he has a tin ear
#auspol
We have arrived at that point.
@albomp.bsky.social is deeply institutionalised, stubborn, and set in his ways.
His paternalistic politics is not conducive to transformational policies.
His #qt performances demonstrate he has a tin ear
#auspol
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"These are diabolical pollution numbers that suggest we are on track for cataclysmic climate change." AU's once in a generation "progressive" government are stuck. Could they move with the Greens to legislate #Science backed #ClimateAction policy? Yep. Will they? Nope. Just sad. #AusPol 🇦🇺 🐨 ♻️ 🌱
Breaking: Government projected to badly miss 2035 climate target, fall shy of 2030
The Environment Department projects Australia is expected to fall well short of its commitment to cut emissions by 62 to 70 per cent by 2035 — though the minister notes that is before accounting for a...
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
"These are diabolical pollution numbers that suggest we are on track for cataclysmic climate change." AU's once in a generation "progressive" government are stuck. Could they move with the Greens to legislate #Science backed #ClimateAction policy? Yep. Will they? Nope. Just sad. #AusPol 🇦🇺 🐨 ♻️ 🌱
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I reckon that if the public knew how much of a genocide supporting, fossil fuel mining, don't tax the rich, flog @albomp.bsky.social was going to be with his massive majority that majority would have been much smaller. #auspol #labor
A new study reveals the reasons behind Labor’s landslide win at the 2025 election, including short-term and long-term factors.
Better policies; better leader: new study reveals why Labor won the 2025 federal election
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I reckon that if the public knew how much of a genocide supporting, fossil fuel mining, don't tax the rich, flog @albomp.bsky.social was going to be with his massive majority that majority would have been much smaller. #auspol #labor
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The Australian Bar Association Council has shut down its Diversity & Inclusion Committee, presumably because the problem has been fixed. Isn't that nice.
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
The Australian Bar Association Council has shut down its Diversity & Inclusion Committee, presumably because the problem has been fixed. Isn't that nice.