Eleanor Padman
@ellie1p.bsky.social
Recovering lawyer. Corporate governance, ESG and sustainability consultant. Interested in social and environmental justice and addressing inequality. Living on Wangal country.
Very insightful writing.
“This is no longer the rusted-on National Party voter. It is a new product category: the insecure traditionalist male. Call it the dislocated patriarch, the status casualty, the affable bloke refashioned as a grievance consumer.”
#auspol
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“This is no longer the rusted-on National Party voter. It is a new product category: the insecure traditionalist male. Call it the dislocated patriarch, the status casualty, the affable bloke refashioned as a grievance consumer.”
#auspol
theaimn.net/we-need-to-t...
We need to Talk About Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin: How Australia’s Men Became a Market for Rage The Demographic Stampede Something has shifted in the Coalition’s heartland, and it’s not policy. It’s identity. Australian me...
theaimn.net
December 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Very insightful writing.
“This is no longer the rusted-on National Party voter. It is a new product category: the insecure traditionalist male. Call it the dislocated patriarch, the status casualty, the affable bloke refashioned as a grievance consumer.”
#auspol
theaimn.net/we-need-to-t...
“This is no longer the rusted-on National Party voter. It is a new product category: the insecure traditionalist male. Call it the dislocated patriarch, the status casualty, the affable bloke refashioned as a grievance consumer.”
#auspol
theaimn.net/we-need-to-t...
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"If we're really concerned about criminals in this country, leaving the ECHR would be exactly like Brexit, in that it would have the opposite effect" - European Movement UK Chair, Dr Mike Galsworthy, on Keir Starmer's calls to reform the ECHR.
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"If we're really concerned about criminals in this country, leaving the ECHR would be exactly like Brexit, in that it would have the opposite effect" - European Movement UK Chair, Dr Mike Galsworthy, on Keir Starmer's calls to reform the ECHR.
This is exactly why we need legislation in Australia. AI will be used for a whole range of life impacting decisions - insurance claims, NDIS packages, mortgage approvals, job applications. Letting that rip without regulations (and therefore accountability) is a recipe for disaster.
#auspol
#auspol
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is exactly why we need legislation in Australia. AI will be used for a whole range of life impacting decisions - insurance claims, NDIS packages, mortgage approvals, job applications. Letting that rip without regulations (and therefore accountability) is a recipe for disaster.
#auspol
#auspol
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Hang on, Starmer is implying the Supreme Court ruling *that emissions from burning fossil fuels should be considered as part of the impact of drilling* is 'misguided'? It's not fluffy do-goodery, it's based on hard, inconvenient facts.
We need environmental protections to protect the irreplaceable.
We need environmental protections to protect the irreplaceable.
Nooooo! Don't scrap the Finch ruling!
Keir Starmer may see them as part of “unnecessary red-tape, well-intentioned, but fundamentally misguided, environmental regulations” but the Finch ruling, Habitats Regulations, biodiversity net gain, etc, are vital protections for our planet and for nature.
Keir Starmer may see them as part of “unnecessary red-tape, well-intentioned, but fundamentally misguided, environmental regulations” but the Finch ruling, Habitats Regulations, biodiversity net gain, etc, are vital protections for our planet and for nature.
2/2 🧵 However, the recommendations include a proposal to scrap the landmark Finch climate ruling and make changes to key green regulations.
What you need to know ⬇️
What you need to know ⬇️
December 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Hang on, Starmer is implying the Supreme Court ruling *that emissions from burning fossil fuels should be considered as part of the impact of drilling* is 'misguided'? It's not fluffy do-goodery, it's based on hard, inconvenient facts.
We need environmental protections to protect the irreplaceable.
We need environmental protections to protect the irreplaceable.
Reposted by Eleanor Padman
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Reposted by Eleanor Padman
When it comes to money-losing tech revolutionaries, OpenAI is in a class by itself.
(via Deutsche)
@weisenthal.bsky.social
(via Deutsche)
@weisenthal.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When it comes to money-losing tech revolutionaries, OpenAI is in a class by itself.
(via Deutsche)
@weisenthal.bsky.social
(via Deutsche)
@weisenthal.bsky.social
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reposted by Eleanor Padman
People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers.
Anyway, about China ...
Anyway, about China ...
December 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers.
Anyway, about China ...
Anyway, about China ...
This is an inexplicably poor decision.
As AI pioneer Yoshua Benigo has pointed out AI is less regulated than a sandwich. Massive global impact but just waived through. 🤦🏻♀️
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
As AI pioneer Yoshua Benigo has pointed out AI is less regulated than a sandwich. Massive global impact but just waived through. 🤦🏻♀️
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Enable workers’ talents’: no need for AI legislation in Australia, Labor says
Roadmap focuses on technology’s ‘economic benefits’ and says existing laws will cover the fast-growing new technology
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
This is an inexplicably poor decision.
As AI pioneer Yoshua Benigo has pointed out AI is less regulated than a sandwich. Massive global impact but just waived through. 🤦🏻♀️
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
As AI pioneer Yoshua Benigo has pointed out AI is less regulated than a sandwich. Massive global impact but just waived through. 🤦🏻♀️
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“It is most likely now that Joyce will run for One Nation in the Senate. The money is good and the role is unburdened by expectations of competence. Past candidates have been car thieves and conspiracy theorists.”
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22189/...
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22189/...
Barnaby Joyce’s political grey area
You can say this about Barnaby Joyce: it took him eating dinner in Pauline Hanson’s parliamentary office to realise how much he resembles a steak cooked on an open sandwich press. What the man lacks i...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
“It is most likely now that Joyce will run for One Nation in the Senate. The money is good and the role is unburdened by expectations of competence. Past candidates have been car thieves and conspiracy theorists.”
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22189/...
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22189/...
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"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
Reposted by Eleanor Padman
NYC pension funds could set a global precedent by ditching BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, on climate grounds. Meanwhile in Australia, our largest super fund #AustralianSuper has thrown its support behind the fossil fuel expansion plans of climate wreckers like Woodside & Whitehaven 😡
👀 If the NYC pension boards adopt the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social recommendations and move BlackRock's $42B mandate to other asset managers, it could be one of the most consequential climate-related actions ever taken by a pension fund in the US or anywhere in the world.
Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
NYC pension funds could set a global precedent by ditching BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, on climate grounds. Meanwhile in Australia, our largest super fund #AustralianSuper has thrown its support behind the fossil fuel expansion plans of climate wreckers like Woodside & Whitehaven 😡
Reposted by Eleanor Padman
Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Eleanor Padman
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Reposted by Eleanor Padman
Why are we sacking scientists who are so essential to understanding our climate crisis? To understanding the horrific algae bloom assaulting SAs beaches? The changes in our oceans? Madness. www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...
Axed Flinders Uni algal bloom expert tells true cost of crisis - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
A Flinders University algal bloom expert – whose role was scrapped as part of a restructure – has shared his worrying insights into the disaster and blasted estimations the marine death toll is 87,000...
www.indailysa.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Why are we sacking scientists who are so essential to understanding our climate crisis? To understanding the horrific algae bloom assaulting SAs beaches? The changes in our oceans? Madness. www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...
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Congratulations @greens.org.au & @larissawaters.bsky.social for extracting important concessions from @australianlabor.bsky.social on new environmental protections.
Far from perfect legislation & an indictment of contemporary ALP that it puts business interests before people & environment
#auspol
Far from perfect legislation & an indictment of contemporary ALP that it puts business interests before people & environment
#auspol
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Congratulations @greens.org.au & @larissawaters.bsky.social for extracting important concessions from @australianlabor.bsky.social on new environmental protections.
Far from perfect legislation & an indictment of contemporary ALP that it puts business interests before people & environment
#auspol
Far from perfect legislation & an indictment of contemporary ALP that it puts business interests before people & environment
#auspol
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Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!
What's the deal with balcony solar?
Cora Stryker joins me to explain how "plug-in" solar took Europe by storm and is finally, via Utah (?), making its way to America.
www.volts.wtf
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!
Reposted by Eleanor Padman
JFC. Three gigawatts of fossil-fuelled power for a new Amazon data centre
@beninskeep.bsky.social points out the new gas plant could produce 4x the harmful climate pollution as the coal plant it's replacing 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
www.utilitydive.com/news/nisourc...
@beninskeep.bsky.social points out the new gas plant could produce 4x the harmful climate pollution as the coal plant it's replacing 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
www.utilitydive.com/news/nisourc...
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
JFC. Three gigawatts of fossil-fuelled power for a new Amazon data centre
@beninskeep.bsky.social points out the new gas plant could produce 4x the harmful climate pollution as the coal plant it's replacing 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
www.utilitydive.com/news/nisourc...
@beninskeep.bsky.social points out the new gas plant could produce 4x the harmful climate pollution as the coal plant it's replacing 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
www.utilitydive.com/news/nisourc...
Reposted by Eleanor Padman
Australia, Canada and India have just agreed on a new trilateral partnership. 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇮🇳
Together we will find new ways to cooperate on technology, and innovation in areas like clean energy, critical minerals and Ai.
I look forward to working with you, for the mutual benefit of our nations.
Together we will find new ways to cooperate on technology, and innovation in areas like clean energy, critical minerals and Ai.
I look forward to working with you, for the mutual benefit of our nations.
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Australia, Canada and India have just agreed on a new trilateral partnership. 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇮🇳
Together we will find new ways to cooperate on technology, and innovation in areas like clean energy, critical minerals and Ai.
I look forward to working with you, for the mutual benefit of our nations.
Together we will find new ways to cooperate on technology, and innovation in areas like clean energy, critical minerals and Ai.
I look forward to working with you, for the mutual benefit of our nations.
Reposted by Eleanor Padman
"10% of our revenue will come from criminals paying us for access to our customers" is an astonishing thing to put in writing
"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...
We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud
Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them
www.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"10% of our revenue will come from criminals paying us for access to our customers" is an astonishing thing to put in writing
Reposted by Eleanor Padman
Read this if you are worried or angry about Climate:
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Read this if you are worried or angry about Climate:
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Reposted by Eleanor Padman
In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
China is building 74% of all current solar and wind projects, report says
Beijing is dominating construction of renewable energy sources, according to Global Energy Monitor
www.ft.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...