Nigel Ball
@nigeb.bsky.social
Speed up renewables, electrify everything, buy local, stop burning stuff and Slava Ukraini
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We must make ourselves and our alliance stronger than the US, Russia, and China simultaneously. It will not be an easy task nor will it be an impossible task. The future of Democracy and the rule of law rest squarely on our shoulders and how we respond in the face of this multipolar triad of evil.
December 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
We must make ourselves and our alliance stronger than the US, Russia, and China simultaneously. It will not be an easy task nor will it be an impossible task. The future of Democracy and the rule of law rest squarely on our shoulders and how we respond in the face of this multipolar triad of evil.
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Over half the electricity produced in both the National Electricity Market and WA's Wholesale Electricity Market came from renewable electricity in the past month.
This is putting downwards pressure on wholesale prices.
This is putting downwards pressure on wholesale prices.
December 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Over half the electricity produced in both the National Electricity Market and WA's Wholesale Electricity Market came from renewable electricity in the past month.
This is putting downwards pressure on wholesale prices.
This is putting downwards pressure on wholesale prices.
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If you thought #RisingTide was yesterday was BIG, wait until you see today‼️ 💥
November 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
If you thought #RisingTide was yesterday was BIG, wait until you see today‼️ 💥
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Greenpeace activists have scaled and blocked a second coal ship during the #RisingTide People’s Blockade. Australian musicians Oli and Louis Leimbach from Lime Cordiale joined the action‼️
November 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Greenpeace activists have scaled and blocked a second coal ship during the #RisingTide People’s Blockade. Australian musicians Oli and Louis Leimbach from Lime Cordiale joined the action‼️
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BREAKING‼️ Greenpeace have scaled and blocked a coal ship bound for Newcastle today for #RisingTide, deploying a banner with a message to Labor 👉🏼 “Phase Out Coal and Gas”.
www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...
www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...
November 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
BREAKING‼️ Greenpeace have scaled and blocked a coal ship bound for Newcastle today for #RisingTide, deploying a banner with a message to Labor 👉🏼 “Phase Out Coal and Gas”.
www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...
www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...
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5 Nannas aboard a tinnie first to break through the police line at Newcastle Harbour. Ship about to enter the harbour turns back …. we turned the ship around! #RisingTide #ClimateAction
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
5 Nannas aboard a tinnie first to break through the police line at Newcastle Harbour. Ship about to enter the harbour turns back …. we turned the ship around! #RisingTide #ClimateAction
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Greens leader @larissawaters.bsky.social has the joined the #RisingTide blockade of the world's biggest coal port 💚
"We don't need anymore coal and gas"‼️
"We don't need anymore coal and gas"‼️
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Greens leader @larissawaters.bsky.social has the joined the #RisingTide blockade of the world's biggest coal port 💚
"We don't need anymore coal and gas"‼️
"We don't need anymore coal and gas"‼️
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Kudos @larissawaters.bsky.social and @risingtideaus.bsky.social
It’s time we changed direction, to care for our people and our planet. 💚
It’s time we changed direction, to care for our people and our planet. 💚
Greens leader @larissawaters.bsky.social has the joined the #RisingTide blockade of the world's biggest coal port 💚
"We don't need anymore coal and gas"‼️
"We don't need anymore coal and gas"‼️
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Kudos @larissawaters.bsky.social and @risingtideaus.bsky.social
It’s time we changed direction, to care for our people and our planet. 💚
It’s time we changed direction, to care for our people and our planet. 💚
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Powerful speakers at #RisingTide👇🏽
Uniting Church leader Rev Faaimata Havea Hiliau, Saibai Islander and #ClimateJustice advocate Barbara Ibuai, former NSW Fire Commissioner Greg Mullins, and Greens leader Larissa Waters 💚
Uniting Church leader Rev Faaimata Havea Hiliau, Saibai Islander and #ClimateJustice advocate Barbara Ibuai, former NSW Fire Commissioner Greg Mullins, and Greens leader Larissa Waters 💚
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Powerful speakers at #RisingTide👇🏽
Uniting Church leader Rev Faaimata Havea Hiliau, Saibai Islander and #ClimateJustice advocate Barbara Ibuai, former NSW Fire Commissioner Greg Mullins, and Greens leader Larissa Waters 💚
Uniting Church leader Rev Faaimata Havea Hiliau, Saibai Islander and #ClimateJustice advocate Barbara Ibuai, former NSW Fire Commissioner Greg Mullins, and Greens leader Larissa Waters 💚
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The transition away from coal in 2 minutes. Send this one to your mate to say #RisingTide is pro-worker!
Join us to fight for a 78% tax on coal and gas exports, to fund the future and protect the climate.
Join us to fight for a 78% tax on coal and gas exports, to fund the future and protect the climate.
November 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The transition away from coal in 2 minutes. Send this one to your mate to say #RisingTide is pro-worker!
Join us to fight for a 78% tax on coal and gas exports, to fund the future and protect the climate.
Join us to fight for a 78% tax on coal and gas exports, to fund the future and protect the climate.
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Zack Schofield of Rising Tide with the flotilla (and police) in the background. #PeoplesBlockade.
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Zack Schofield of Rising Tide with the flotilla (and police) in the background. #PeoplesBlockade.
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Pumping the Jam at #RisingTide 🥁🎹🎶 Join us take on the coal billionaires for #ClimateJustice this weekend at the world's biggest coal port 👇🏽
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
November 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Pumping the Jam at #RisingTide 🥁🎹🎶 Join us take on the coal billionaires for #ClimateJustice this weekend at the world's biggest coal port 👇🏽
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
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Big Oil raked in record-breaking profits. The companies that caused the climate crisis are getting rich as they fuel the fire.
@ExxonMobil: $55.7 billion
@Shell: $39.87 billion
@Chevron: $35.5 billion
@BP_plc: $27.7 billion
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#panelsnotpipelines #cdnpoli
@ExxonMobil: $55.7 billion
@Shell: $39.87 billion
@Chevron: $35.5 billion
@BP_plc: $27.7 billion
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#panelsnotpipelines #cdnpoli
November 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Big Oil raked in record-breaking profits. The companies that caused the climate crisis are getting rich as they fuel the fire.
@ExxonMobil: $55.7 billion
@Shell: $39.87 billion
@Chevron: $35.5 billion
@BP_plc: $27.7 billion
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#panelsnotpipelines #cdnpoli
@ExxonMobil: $55.7 billion
@Shell: $39.87 billion
@Chevron: $35.5 billion
@BP_plc: $27.7 billion
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#panelsnotpipelines #cdnpoli
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Meanwhile Australia opens massive new fossil fuel export projects with vastly more emissions than all the pacific states combined.
Australia is an out-of-contol petrostate, drowning its Pacific neighbours, and should not be allowed to host COP31.
Australia is an out-of-contol petrostate, drowning its Pacific neighbours, and should not be allowed to host COP31.
November 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Meanwhile Australia opens massive new fossil fuel export projects with vastly more emissions than all the pacific states combined.
Australia is an out-of-contol petrostate, drowning its Pacific neighbours, and should not be allowed to host COP31.
Australia is an out-of-contol petrostate, drowning its Pacific neighbours, and should not be allowed to host COP31.
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“Instead of pouring more fuel on the fire with billions in fossil fuel subsidies, it’s time the government taxed the fossil fuel industry to create a National Climate Disaster Fund."
- Senior Economist @jack-thrower.bsky.social quoted in @thepointau.bsky.social
#auspol
- Senior Economist @jack-thrower.bsky.social quoted in @thepointau.bsky.social
#auspol
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“Instead of pouring more fuel on the fire with billions in fossil fuel subsidies, it’s time the government taxed the fossil fuel industry to create a National Climate Disaster Fund."
- Senior Economist @jack-thrower.bsky.social quoted in @thepointau.bsky.social
#auspol
- Senior Economist @jack-thrower.bsky.social quoted in @thepointau.bsky.social
#auspol
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The Govt voted against my amendments to the EPBC Act—missing a crucial opportunity to modernise our environmental laws.
My amendments involved:
* Climate financial risk disclosures
* A duty of care to future generations
* Assessment of cumulative impacts
* Fair appeal rights under enviro orders
My amendments involved:
* Climate financial risk disclosures
* A duty of care to future generations
* Assessment of cumulative impacts
* Fair appeal rights under enviro orders
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The Govt voted against my amendments to the EPBC Act—missing a crucial opportunity to modernise our environmental laws.
My amendments involved:
* Climate financial risk disclosures
* A duty of care to future generations
* Assessment of cumulative impacts
* Fair appeal rights under enviro orders
My amendments involved:
* Climate financial risk disclosures
* A duty of care to future generations
* Assessment of cumulative impacts
* Fair appeal rights under enviro orders
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Dumping net zero by 2050 ignores Australia’s international commitment to slash climate pollution, sells out young Australians and leaves the regional communities the Nationals claim to represent more vulnerable to fossil-fuelled extreme fires, floods, and storms.
Sussan Ley under pressure as Nationals formally scrap net zero target
David Littleproud says he informed the Liberal leader days ago of the policy position his party was considering
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Dumping net zero by 2050 ignores Australia’s international commitment to slash climate pollution, sells out young Australians and leaves the regional communities the Nationals claim to represent more vulnerable to fossil-fuelled extreme fires, floods, and storms.
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And as you drive through Australian mining towns with half the shops that are closed you think where did all that mining money go?
Great questions. Why are the extractors and burners of fossil fuels not paying up.
Why do we pay ($15bn this year) billions in subsidies every year to fossil fuels?
Why do we pay ($15bn this year) billions in subsidies every year to fossil fuels?
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
And as you drive through Australian mining towns with half the shops that are closed you think where did all that mining money go?
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Peeps say "big cars are safer"
Some not #funfacts
No, they're not
Cars kill us
99% deaths due to cars
Bigger cars kill more peeps
Big cars kill more of us not in a vehicle
~34% road deaths pedestrians & cyclists
ANCAP red rating ought not be approved for Aus roads
Like Mitsubishi Triton, other utes
Some not #funfacts
No, they're not
Cars kill us
99% deaths due to cars
Bigger cars kill more peeps
Big cars kill more of us not in a vehicle
~34% road deaths pedestrians & cyclists
ANCAP red rating ought not be approved for Aus roads
Like Mitsubishi Triton, other utes
October 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Peeps say "big cars are safer"
Some not #funfacts
No, they're not
Cars kill us
99% deaths due to cars
Bigger cars kill more peeps
Big cars kill more of us not in a vehicle
~34% road deaths pedestrians & cyclists
ANCAP red rating ought not be approved for Aus roads
Like Mitsubishi Triton, other utes
Some not #funfacts
No, they're not
Cars kill us
99% deaths due to cars
Bigger cars kill more peeps
Big cars kill more of us not in a vehicle
~34% road deaths pedestrians & cyclists
ANCAP red rating ought not be approved for Aus roads
Like Mitsubishi Triton, other utes
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Read more here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-ana...
New Analysis: WA drivers pay more rego than gas companies pay in royalties
New Australia Institute research released today shows that royalty payments by the gas industry are negligible and expected to contribute just 1.3% to this week’s WA budget.
australiainstitute.org.au
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Read more here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-ana...
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Murray Watt recently approved Woodside’s North West Shelf to continue exporting gas until 2070 – a project which scientists estimate could cause hundreds of heat-related deaths this century.
✍️ Sign here:
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
✍️ Sign here:
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
PETITION: Strong environment laws stop new coal and gas
The Australian public voted for a climate majority at the last election, and we want strong environment laws that can stop new coal and gas.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
October 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Murray Watt recently approved Woodside’s North West Shelf to continue exporting gas until 2070 – a project which scientists estimate could cause hundreds of heat-related deaths this century.
✍️ Sign here:
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
✍️ Sign here:
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...
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Did you see us today in The Canberra Times?
Australians have voted for climate action – add your name to our petition urging Murray Watt to actually strengthen our environmental laws and stop new coal and gas projects!
#auspol
Australians have voted for climate action – add your name to our petition urging Murray Watt to actually strengthen our environmental laws and stop new coal and gas projects!
#auspol
October 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Did you see us today in The Canberra Times?
Australians have voted for climate action – add your name to our petition urging Murray Watt to actually strengthen our environmental laws and stop new coal and gas projects!
#auspol
Australians have voted for climate action – add your name to our petition urging Murray Watt to actually strengthen our environmental laws and stop new coal and gas projects!
#auspol
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Hey @wired.com
Don't label me
I'm not left wing
I'm truth over noise
Data over opinion
Science over nonsense
Reason over rhetoric
Information over ignorance
Knowledge over narrative
Verification over virtue‑signalling
Speaking truth to power
Analysis, reason, and rigour on all sides, not partisan
Don't label me
I'm not left wing
I'm truth over noise
Data over opinion
Science over nonsense
Reason over rhetoric
Information over ignorance
Knowledge over narrative
Verification over virtue‑signalling
Speaking truth to power
Analysis, reason, and rigour on all sides, not partisan
After months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.
Inside the Trump Adminstration's Bluesky Invasion
On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.
wrd.cm
October 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Hey @wired.com
Don't label me
I'm not left wing
I'm truth over noise
Data over opinion
Science over nonsense
Reason over rhetoric
Information over ignorance
Knowledge over narrative
Verification over virtue‑signalling
Speaking truth to power
Analysis, reason, and rigour on all sides, not partisan
Don't label me
I'm not left wing
I'm truth over noise
Data over opinion
Science over nonsense
Reason over rhetoric
Information over ignorance
Knowledge over narrative
Verification over virtue‑signalling
Speaking truth to power
Analysis, reason, and rigour on all sides, not partisan
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October 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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This is what happens when you play groups off against each other, Minister Watt. Nobody is happy and you end up looking foolish.
Here's an idea, Minister Watt, activate your heart and spine, respect the advice of environment, climate and conservation experts, and work with the Greens to get the EPBC Act reform package passed. Your job is to be Minister 'for' the environment, remember?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Coalition sours over proposed reform to 'broken' environment laws
Optimism that a deal can be found to amend Australia's environment laws fades, as the Coalition raises concerns over details just days after parts of the legislation were shared with stakeholders.
www.abc.net.au
October 23, 2025 at 6:09 AM
This is what happens when you play groups off against each other, Minister Watt. Nobody is happy and you end up looking foolish.