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goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · 1h

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 16h

this is today at 1pm btw www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unfinished...

Unfinished Business: 50 Years After Henderson

An initiative of the Australian Social Policy Association and the Australian Journal of Social Issues, as part of Anti-Poverty Week.

www.eventbrite.com.au

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goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · 1d

This applies to Australia

Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick @sarahinscience.bsky.social · 1d

For so long, fossil fuel projects have said their contribution to climate change is "negligible".
Turns out that's wrong.
Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it.
Every tonne of CO2 matters.
@21stcenturyweather.bsky.social
@minderoo.bsky.social
#climatechange
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making

www.nature.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

V good @business-humanrights.org summary of the current state of benefit sharing in the renewable energy sector

It is really wild how underdeveloped this model is, but there is also a massive amount of opportunity.

www.business-humanrights.org/en/blog/bene...

Benefit sharing in wind and solar projects must become the norm. The Just Transition Work Programme is a unique opportunity - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

www.business-humanrights.org

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 4d

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d

Wow, way worse than I expected. Way, way worse. All these extra years of coal-fired power generation in QLD will directly cause a massive number of avoidable deaths and harm to people, and destroy huge swathes of nature.

Why isn't there more anger?

www.treasury.qld.gov.au/files/Queens...

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 5d

Just remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 5d

$10m of fraud recovered from the Australian “job provider” system in the last 3 years and not one provider removed from the system.

So welfare recipients lose their ability to pay for shelter or food due to other people’s errors, but job providers face no consequences for fraud.

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 5d

Lmao the employment department has recovered 10.6 MILLION from providers due to fraud tip-offs over 3 years, and not shut down a single provider.

Reminder: They spend 4 BILLION A YEAR on this system, which is about 25% of how much they spend on JobSeeker payments each year.

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goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · 7d

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goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · 7d

CMAX

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goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · 7d

ANACTA

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goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · 7d

KBR too

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 7d

That's two years now where coal hasn't followed the downwards trajectory of the decade before that. It's flat: and that means cumulative emissions are rising.

We're doing this to get rid of fossil fuels, folks!

explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/au/ex...

a chart showing coal output in Australia

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goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · 7d

“the legislature directed the governor’s office to create a “Transmission Infrastructure Accelerator,” a program that will develop public financing options for new transmission lines”

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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 12d

Climate misinformation are common, influential and damaging. They’re spread for a reason: to slow the uptake of clean alternatives to fossil fuels.

reneweconomy.com.au

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goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · 13d

Flotilla Tracker - their getting close now

globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/

Flotilla Tracker - Global Movement to Gaza

globalsumudflotilla.org

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · Sep 8

The first time I heard someone cleanly explain what was going on was Mark Blyth during a talk at the London School of Economics soon after the inauguration. What we're looking at, he said, is an attempt to use government to strand renewable assets before fossil fuel assets become stranded.

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Burning Down the House: Carbon Politics, American Power, and the Almighty Dollar

YouTube video by LSE European Institute

www.youtube.com

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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 14d

Misinformation and “astroturfing” is alive and well in energy debates in Australia, and fostering community division, as well as bullying and intimidation, inquiry hears.

reneweconomy.com.au

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Max von Thun @maxvonthun.bsky.social · 17d

“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 18d

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 16d

IPCC reports #renewables now 10 times more efficient than new #nuclear at #climate mitigation.
92.5% new power generation capacity added worldwide in 2024 was from renewables - with new nuclear nowhere.
New nuclear vastly over-cost and over-time.

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goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · 20d

Farmers for Climate Action hit by social media attack, says fake news drowns out rural voices reneweconomy.com.au/farmers-for-...

reneweconomy.com.au

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goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · 22d

“where the research was off the mark, the reality has tilted towards extreme outcomes, rather than more moderate ones.”

goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · 22d

“The Garnaut review’s baseline forecast that unmitigated climate change would result in global temperatures rising by 2.3 degrees by 2050 remains largely on track, 17 years after it was first published.” www.afr.com/policy/energ...

‘Scam’, ‘hoax’, ‘rubbish’: Chris Bowen versus The Internet

This week’s grim climate report was met with a million “laughing emojis” on social media. But are climate sceptics losing their political power?

www.afr.com

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goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · 24d

"There are just groups of human beings — all of whom came from Africa originally — who developed slightly different physical characteristics over time as they travelled to, and adapted to, different climates and environments."
theconversation.com/racism-isnt-...

goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · 24d

"Research shows a link between prejudice and poor psychological functioning"

"..racism is an aberration, not an innate human trait. It’s also worth remembering that the very concept of race is baseless. There is no genetic or biological basis for dividing the human race into distinct “races”."

Racism isn’t innate – here are five psychological stages that may lead to it

There is no genetic or biological basis for dividing the human race into distinct “races.”

theconversation.com

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