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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

The ALP might as well merge with the Minerals Council of Australia

Miners to get an early look at Labor’s new green laws

Tom Rabe
WA political correspondent
Oct 12, 2025 – 3.26pm

The Albanese government will give mining companies and other stakeholders draft extracts of its environmental protection laws before they go to parliament, as Environment Minister Murray Watt tries to rebuild trust after earlier negotiations on the reforms collapsed in acrimony.

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 1d

Correction, Human-caused Global Warming.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

An international report from climate scientists suggests tipping points for coral reefs have been reached, putting them at risk of dieback.

Coral reefs at risk of mass dieback as global warming reaches tipping point

An international report from climate scientists suggests tipping points for coral reefs have been reached, putting them at risk of dieback.

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 2d

...anyway, look where Another Liberal Party (ALP) are today. A total mess, lost at sea in their greed fueled rage.

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. So why support it?

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 2d

He could have said "I won't support the abolition of the carbon price".

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 2d

He supported it when the LNP won government. Shorten wanted an ETS.

www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07...

Abbott hails carbon tax repeal after Senate vote

Australia no longer has a carbon tax, after the Government finally secured enough Senate support to kill it off, fulfilling a key election promise for Prime Minister Tony Abbott. The final vote was w...

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 2d

When Watt cites “Safeguard Mechanism as an effective way of controlling emissions”, you should know SM only applies to direct (scope 1) GHG emissions of 🇦🇺's largest emitters

SM doesn't cover emissions produced from 🇦🇺’s Coal+Gas exports that make up ~80% of 🇦🇺’s contribution to global emissions 1/

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 2d

#HumanCausedGlobalWarming

Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 3d

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN JAPAN: 35C!
This is the most extreme event in Japanese history.
October records pulverized (see list below).

Also incredible hot nights with Mins up to 28C (above July average):
28.0 Izena
26.2 Yakushima

Much hotter next week!

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 2d

Lol.

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 2d

Until Bill Shorten teamed up with Abbott to destroy it.

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 2d

Where on the meme did Woody Allen touch you?

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 2d

Don't let the common name fool you. I've seen Mistletoe birds eating Solanum americanum, Stephania japonica var. discolor and Schinus terebinthifolius. I suggest a common name change "fruit bird"....

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 3d

Every time the government accepts money from the gambling industry, it increases its debts to companies whose business models are based on preying on young and vulnerable people, and doing them harm.

The Albanese government does this again and again.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sportsbet dines with government minister at Labor fundraiser despite calls to reject lobbying from industry

Exclusive: Dinner occurred on the same day that four crossbench MPs held a press conference calling on government to ignore lobbying from gambling industry

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 2d

Woody Allen Derangement Syndrome (WADS).

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 2d

He threatened the doctor with a tariff didn't he?

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 7d

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#CostOfInaction
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

At $4.5bn each year, extreme weather is costing Australia three times as much compared with 1990s, insurers say

‘The trajectory is only up, in terms of insured costs,’ professor of climate risk warns

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 2d

x.com/weathermonit...

#Precipitation
#Floods
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 3d

Another Liberal Party not "shite-lite".

Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 4d

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Dave @daveb23.bsky.social · 3d

"And look, no offence to Sora’s “creators”. I often walk through art galleries and realise the stuff on the walls would be so much better if I simply stole it and drew hilarious penises on it or whatever"

Great article about AI.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde

His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 3d

4 billion human lives lost if we don't act yesterday.

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Current climate policies risk catastrophic societal and economic impacts | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

The global economy could face a 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 unless immediate policy action on risks posed by the climate crisis is taken, warns a new report by the IFoA.

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 3d

#JustCheckingWithABrickwall

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just checking to see if embedded emissions in Australian fossil fuel exports are now included in Australia's emissions reduction target and that historical anthropogenic emissions are included in the target too...

#DenierrheaStripes

Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 3d

"my cats too old... I feed my cat heaps... It doesn't hunt when I look at it... I vote ALP because they're the lesser of two massive turd piles... I feed kookaburras, butcher birds and currawongs what's the problem?"

Kade @namelessactivist.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis
Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 3d

Every ALP voter has. Buyers remorse.

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Damian Butler @damianbutlerhcgw.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry @thejuicemedia.com they are #AnotherFnLiberalParty not "shite-lite" or whatever lesser of two turd piles names you have for them..

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 5d

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

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