Philip Thalis
@philipthalis.bsky.social
Architect, urbanist, public advocate. Principal @HillThalisAUP co author #PublicSydney Book & Puzzle. Prof Practice UNSW. ex Sydney Ind Councillor. Aust Arch Gold🥇2024
On Gadigal country
On Gadigal country
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Save the CSIRO
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Save the CSIRO
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
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"Australia’s news outlets don’t interrogate AUKUS, instead merely asking, 'Is AUKUS on track or in jeopardy?'”
One of the reasons Australians appear to support #AUKUS:
Mainstream media is hopeless at presenting the real costs and threats.
Which suits this secretive government just fine. #auspol
One of the reasons Australians appear to support #AUKUS:
Mainstream media is hopeless at presenting the real costs and threats.
Which suits this secretive government just fine. #auspol
Like a Rubik’s Cube, AUKUS reveals a different problem depending on which way you turn it. But Australians are increasingly in support of it.
AUKUS is finding public support despite its many problems. Why?
www.crikey.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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How NOT to design & build public transport!
The light rail stop buried in the bowels of Star Casino is such a dismal environment; dark, internalised, closed to the street & harbour, the poor cousin to the shiny casino above.
Never make public transport subservient to private agendas.
#publicsydney
The light rail stop buried in the bowels of Star Casino is such a dismal environment; dark, internalised, closed to the street & harbour, the poor cousin to the shiny casino above.
Never make public transport subservient to private agendas.
#publicsydney
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
How NOT to design & build public transport!
The light rail stop buried in the bowels of Star Casino is such a dismal environment; dark, internalised, closed to the street & harbour, the poor cousin to the shiny casino above.
Never make public transport subservient to private agendas.
#publicsydney
The light rail stop buried in the bowels of Star Casino is such a dismal environment; dark, internalised, closed to the street & harbour, the poor cousin to the shiny casino above.
Never make public transport subservient to private agendas.
#publicsydney
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A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.
Wimbo Park in Surry Hills - beautifully remade by #suebarnsley Landscape Architects for @cityofsydney.bsky.social.
A generous green expanded due to the cutting through of ES light rail line, opening connections & vista to Moore Pk & SCG beyond.
Able to have a light rail stop added
#publicsydney
A generous green expanded due to the cutting through of ES light rail line, opening connections & vista to Moore Pk & SCG beyond.
Able to have a light rail stop added
#publicsydney
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Wimbo Park in Surry Hills - beautifully remade by #suebarnsley Landscape Architects for @cityofsydney.bsky.social.
A generous green expanded due to the cutting through of ES light rail line, opening connections & vista to Moore Pk & SCG beyond.
Able to have a light rail stop added
#publicsydney
A generous green expanded due to the cutting through of ES light rail line, opening connections & vista to Moore Pk & SCG beyond.
Able to have a light rail stop added
#publicsydney
Yet another revered Labor figure despairing about @albo Govt abdication of any progressive agenda.
Carmen Lawrence in @smh takes them to task about coal, climate & environment, others rightly attacking AUKUS, health, housing, education …
So many squandered opportunities, when threats so present
Carmen Lawrence in @smh takes them to task about coal, climate & environment, others rightly attacking AUKUS, health, housing, education …
So many squandered opportunities, when threats so present
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Yet another revered Labor figure despairing about @albo Govt abdication of any progressive agenda.
Carmen Lawrence in @smh takes them to task about coal, climate & environment, others rightly attacking AUKUS, health, housing, education …
So many squandered opportunities, when threats so present
Carmen Lawrence in @smh takes them to task about coal, climate & environment, others rightly attacking AUKUS, health, housing, education …
So many squandered opportunities, when threats so present
What started as a new office entry - matching in size & scale our #publicsydney drawing with Nolli’s famous 1748 Plan of Rome. Perfect for a design office!
So during COVID we turned our drawing into #publicsydneypuzzle - get yours this Christmas #KinokuniyaAust & #Urobookshops 1/2
So during COVID we turned our drawing into #publicsydneypuzzle - get yours this Christmas #KinokuniyaAust & #Urobookshops 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
What started as a new office entry - matching in size & scale our #publicsydney drawing with Nolli’s famous 1748 Plan of Rome. Perfect for a design office!
So during COVID we turned our drawing into #publicsydneypuzzle - get yours this Christmas #KinokuniyaAust & #Urobookshops 1/2
So during COVID we turned our drawing into #publicsydneypuzzle - get yours this Christmas #KinokuniyaAust & #Urobookshops 1/2
Strong cautionary article by #seankelly in @smh re LNP chaos & Labor risk of complacency… “what matters most over the next few years
Is what Labor does”
So @albomp.bsky.social overtime for some real action to improve the country
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Is what Labor does”
So @albomp.bsky.social overtime for some real action to improve the country
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
You thought climate was a Coalition problem, but Albanese may rue his enemy’s low ebb
Before Labor becomes too smug, it should heed the warning of its president, Wayne Swan: Complacency is “the handmaiden of decline”.
www.smh.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Strong cautionary article by #seankelly in @smh re LNP chaos & Labor risk of complacency… “what matters most over the next few years
Is what Labor does”
So @albomp.bsky.social overtime for some real action to improve the country
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Is what Labor does”
So @albomp.bsky.social overtime for some real action to improve the country
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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It's truly shocking that overseas dark money flooding in from shady groups getting sponsored by billionaires is what's stopping climate action in Australia.
The Duopoly politicians are corrupt.
Democracy dies here.
#auspol
The Duopoly politicians are corrupt.
Democracy dies here.
#auspol
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
It's truly shocking that overseas dark money flooding in from shady groups getting sponsored by billionaires is what's stopping climate action in Australia.
The Duopoly politicians are corrupt.
Democracy dies here.
#auspol
The Duopoly politicians are corrupt.
Democracy dies here.
#auspol
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Chris Minns has different standards for protest – lock ’em up for pro-Palestine and climate action protesters, quiet approval for the far right and pleading ignorance about neo-Nazis rallies. It’s not going to end very well for him, NSW Caucus not so happy. #AUSPOL @dlew919.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Chris Minns has different standards for protest – lock ’em up for pro-Palestine and climate action protesters, quiet approval for the far right and pleading ignorance about neo-Nazis rallies. It’s not going to end very well for him, NSW Caucus not so happy. #AUSPOL @dlew919.bsky.social
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November 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Support Cairo Takeaway via the link in my bio 🇵🇸
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My favourite word for “slow motion”from another language is the German Zeitlupe. It means “time magnifying glass”
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My favourite word for “slow motion”from another language is the German Zeitlupe. It means “time magnifying glass”
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Every time there's a COP, there's more highly paid, well connected and determined fossil lobbyists attedning than anyone else. It's a climate conference for sceintists and government officials.
Can you explain why people paid $billions by the fossil fuel industry want to to attend such an event?
Can you explain why people paid $billions by the fossil fuel industry want to to attend such an event?
More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém (Brazil), 12% up from last year’s talks in Baku, Azerbaijan.
What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Every time there's a COP, there's more highly paid, well connected and determined fossil lobbyists attedning than anyone else. It's a climate conference for sceintists and government officials.
Can you explain why people paid $billions by the fossil fuel industry want to to attend such an event?
Can you explain why people paid $billions by the fossil fuel industry want to to attend such an event?
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Hell, yes!
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Hell, yes!
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I find the words from Attorney-General Michelle Rowland, conflating her religious beliefs with her role as Australia's Attorney-General, to be dangerous, disturbing, shallow and ignorant. #auspol #auslaw #religion
At the Christian prayer breakfast this week, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said that the “principles and values that Jesus lived by underpin the role of Australia’s first law officer” and claimed that “our values and faith” guide lawmakers. Read more: rationalist.com.au/australias-a...
#auspol
#auspol
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The challenges of how to upgrade characterful but dilapidated apartment buildings.
Our work with the owners of this Maroubra Beach front apartment building - long a personal favourite - trying to navigate;
1 planning (DA lodged)
2 documentation, consultant coord, regulations
3 construction
…
Our work with the owners of this Maroubra Beach front apartment building - long a personal favourite - trying to navigate;
1 planning (DA lodged)
2 documentation, consultant coord, regulations
3 construction
…
November 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The challenges of how to upgrade characterful but dilapidated apartment buildings.
Our work with the owners of this Maroubra Beach front apartment building - long a personal favourite - trying to navigate;
1 planning (DA lodged)
2 documentation, consultant coord, regulations
3 construction
…
Our work with the owners of this Maroubra Beach front apartment building - long a personal favourite - trying to navigate;
1 planning (DA lodged)
2 documentation, consultant coord, regulations
3 construction
…
Australian politics’ rich vein of irony
Hilarious that we have a govt captured by fossil fuel companies and an opposition declaring they will not deliver on our legal obligations under the Paris Agreement and we are gunning to host the next COP meeting.
I'm on the ground here in Belem at COP30. Here is a quick video of part of the performance by Wiradjuri man Benjamin Thomson and Germaine Paulson gave after a press conference yesterday morning by civil society groups pressing the case for Australia to host the conference next year.
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Australian politics’ rich vein of irony
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Hilarious that we have a govt captured by fossil fuel companies and an opposition declaring they will not deliver on our legal obligations under the Paris Agreement and we are gunning to host the next COP meeting.
I'm on the ground here in Belem at COP30. Here is a quick video of part of the performance by Wiradjuri man Benjamin Thomson and Germaine Paulson gave after a press conference yesterday morning by civil society groups pressing the case for Australia to host the conference next year.
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Hilarious that we have a govt captured by fossil fuel companies and an opposition declaring they will not deliver on our legal obligations under the Paris Agreement and we are gunning to host the next COP meeting.
Substantial discussion on our housing conundrums; cost, supply, affordability, planning, tax & all the rest.
Discussions in a public forum held in Perth, listen in & learn … beyond the headlines & shallow polemic.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Discussions in a public forum held in Perth, listen in & learn … beyond the headlines & shallow polemic.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Fixing Australia's housing crisis — is increasing supply really a silver bullet? - ABC listen
Build more houses. That'll fix Australia's housing crisis won't it? If you listen to governments, you'd sure think so. Under the National Housing Accord, all governments have agreed to support a targ...
www.abc.net.au
November 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Substantial discussion on our housing conundrums; cost, supply, affordability, planning, tax & all the rest.
Discussions in a public forum held in Perth, listen in & learn … beyond the headlines & shallow polemic.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Discussions in a public forum held in Perth, listen in & learn … beyond the headlines & shallow polemic.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The intrinsic adaptability of #sydneyterracehouses is too often stymied by overstated heritage. Let them be;
-added to vertically
-extended forward to the street line
-turned into shops & offices
-split into flats
-opened up internally
-opened up to rear
No need to be too precious about most
-added to vertically
-extended forward to the street line
-turned into shops & offices
-split into flats
-opened up internally
-opened up to rear
No need to be too precious about most
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The intrinsic adaptability of #sydneyterracehouses is too often stymied by overstated heritage. Let them be;
-added to vertically
-extended forward to the street line
-turned into shops & offices
-split into flats
-opened up internally
-opened up to rear
No need to be too precious about most
-added to vertically
-extended forward to the street line
-turned into shops & offices
-split into flats
-opened up internally
-opened up to rear
No need to be too precious about most
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Electrification in Europe and US: slowing down over the last 15 years, and only progressing very slowly in recent years.
Electrification in China: chugging along at a much higher speed, well exceeding the level in Europe and US now.
Electrification in China: chugging along at a much higher speed, well exceeding the level in Europe and US now.
In the global electrification race China is marching ahead.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Electrification in Europe and US: slowing down over the last 15 years, and only progressing very slowly in recent years.
Electrification in China: chugging along at a much higher speed, well exceeding the level in Europe and US now.
Electrification in China: chugging along at a much higher speed, well exceeding the level in Europe and US now.
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Couldn’t give a flying you-know-what about the party with net-zero between the ears. Stop talking about them. Write thousands and thousands of words about this instead… | www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Over the moon': Aboriginal activists, leader celebrate historic treaty
Leaders and activists say they are feeling the gravity of Australia's first treaty with Aboriginal people being signed and formalised as law.
www.abc.net.au
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Couldn’t give a flying you-know-what about the party with net-zero between the ears. Stop talking about them. Write thousands and thousands of words about this instead… | www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem