Anthony Butt
@pab55.bsky.social
Like sport, love family and happy when I find honest politicians. Big Rabbitohs fan.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Oil and gas giant Inpex has admitted to srsly under-reporting its cancer-causing pollution (incl. benzene, sulphur dioxide & hydrogen sulphide) just days before a major oil spill at their Darwin gas plant. Inpex is a major gas exporter. Last year they paid no royalties and no resource tax! #auspol
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Oil and gas giant Inpex has admitted to srsly under-reporting its cancer-causing pollution (incl. benzene, sulphur dioxide & hydrogen sulphide) just days before a major oil spill at their Darwin gas plant. Inpex is a major gas exporter. Last year they paid no royalties and no resource tax! #auspol
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As COP30 begins, here's a gentle reminder that well-intentioned half measures aren't going to solve the climate crisis. The era of fossil fuels must come to an end. My latest in The Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
As COP30 begins, here's a gentle reminder that well-intentioned half measures aren't going to solve the climate crisis. The era of fossil fuels must come to an end. My latest in The Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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For those who will bear witness. For everyone who pretends there was benevolence from 'employers' & governments, and no slavery in Australia; who believes Tony Abbott's version of history. Debra Dank writes with beauty and anger of the truth we cannot dodge.
theconversation.com/friday-essay...
theconversation.com/friday-essay...
Friday essay: Debra Dank’s grandmother was a ‘drover’s boy’. Her stolen wages can’t be recovered
Stella Prize shortlisted author Debra Dank reflects on how her family’s lives were scarred by stolen wages and colonial violence – and on the complexities of apologies.
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
For those who will bear witness. For everyone who pretends there was benevolence from 'employers' & governments, and no slavery in Australia; who believes Tony Abbott's version of history. Debra Dank writes with beauty and anger of the truth we cannot dodge.
theconversation.com/friday-essay...
theconversation.com/friday-essay...
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Excellent, spot-on, piece from @joellegergis.bsky.social
It's fossil fuels stupid!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's fossil fuels stupid!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Excellent, spot-on, piece from @joellegergis.bsky.social
It's fossil fuels stupid!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's fossil fuels stupid!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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With a return to the Pliocene locked-in, the only meaningful question is, will we stop there or maintain BAU until a return to the Middle Miocene becomes inevitable or - ultimately - the early Eocene?
If the latter, this is what the UK will eventually look like
If the latter, this is what the UK will eventually look like
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
With a return to the Pliocene locked-in, the only meaningful question is, will we stop there or maintain BAU until a return to the Middle Miocene becomes inevitable or - ultimately - the early Eocene?
If the latter, this is what the UK will eventually look like
If the latter, this is what the UK will eventually look like
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Mockery of human rights. High Court rules indefinite detention of refugees unlawful. Govt packs refugees back to Nauru indefinitely. Janet Pelly reports #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/nauru-refuge...
michaelwest.com.au/nauru-refuge...
Nauru refugees. Indefinite detention a definite breach of High Court ruling - Michael West
Despite High Court ruling declaring indefinite detention of refugees unlawful, the Government is sending refugees back to Nauru.
michaelwest.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Mockery of human rights. High Court rules indefinite detention of refugees unlawful. Govt packs refugees back to Nauru indefinitely. Janet Pelly reports #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/nauru-refuge...
michaelwest.com.au/nauru-refuge...
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While the national dump Net Zero, and seem to ignore or deny Climate change, one industry that definitely doe know about and understand Climate change, is the Insurance industry, and its via insurance, that we all pay for our governments lack of climate action. #auspol
Insurer calls for climate action as severe weather drives premiums up
A report from IAG and a scientific research centre finds escalating risk from severe weather events in south-east Queensland, New South Wales, and south-west Western Australia.
www.abc.net.au
November 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
While the national dump Net Zero, and seem to ignore or deny Climate change, one industry that definitely doe know about and understand Climate change, is the Insurance industry, and its via insurance, that we all pay for our governments lack of climate action. #auspol
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Australia's the second-largest LNG exporter in the world, but Australians have to pay through the nose for their own gas!
And on top of that, we're giving half of our exported gas away for free!
📺Stephen Long, Senior Fellow & Contributing Editor
@stephenlongaus.bsky.social #auspol
And on top of that, we're giving half of our exported gas away for free!
📺Stephen Long, Senior Fellow & Contributing Editor
@stephenlongaus.bsky.social #auspol
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Australia's the second-largest LNG exporter in the world, but Australians have to pay through the nose for their own gas!
And on top of that, we're giving half of our exported gas away for free!
📺Stephen Long, Senior Fellow & Contributing Editor
@stephenlongaus.bsky.social #auspol
And on top of that, we're giving half of our exported gas away for free!
📺Stephen Long, Senior Fellow & Contributing Editor
@stephenlongaus.bsky.social #auspol
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'In Australia...Ministers for the Environment are also there to speak up for environmental exploitation, and that needs to change."
- Bob Brown unpacks just some of the issues with proposed changes to our environment laws #auspol
- Bob Brown unpacks just some of the issues with proposed changes to our environment laws #auspol
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
'In Australia...Ministers for the Environment are also there to speak up for environmental exploitation, and that needs to change."
- Bob Brown unpacks just some of the issues with proposed changes to our environment laws #auspol
- Bob Brown unpacks just some of the issues with proposed changes to our environment laws #auspol
Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org
Jews Demand Action
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November 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org
Help protect our oceans, beaches, and future generations.
Sign the Australian Marine Conservation Society's petition for Australia to champion a strong global plastics treaty! 🐢🐣🐳🏖️
marineconservation.org.au/actions/glob...
Sign the Australian Marine Conservation Society's petition for Australia to champion a strong global plastics treaty! 🐢🐣🐳🏖️
marineconservation.org.au/actions/glob...
Sign & share the petition for a strong Global Plastics Treaty now!
Sign your name! Call on the Australian Government to negotiate a strong Global Plastics Treaty for the world's oceans and people.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Help protect our oceans, beaches, and future generations.
Sign the Australian Marine Conservation Society's petition for Australia to champion a strong global plastics treaty! 🐢🐣🐳🏖️
marineconservation.org.au/actions/glob...
Sign the Australian Marine Conservation Society's petition for Australia to champion a strong global plastics treaty! 🐢🐣🐳🏖️
marineconservation.org.au/actions/glob...
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“Gas companies treat tax as optional, and they leave the rest of us with the cleanup bill for the natural disasters that they are turbo charging.”
Read the full write-up of Senator Waters' speech at yesterday's Revenue Summit on The Point!
#auspol @larissawaters.bsky.social
Read the full write-up of Senator Waters' speech at yesterday's Revenue Summit on The Point!
#auspol @larissawaters.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
“Gas companies treat tax as optional, and they leave the rest of us with the cleanup bill for the natural disasters that they are turbo charging.”
Read the full write-up of Senator Waters' speech at yesterday's Revenue Summit on The Point!
#auspol @larissawaters.bsky.social
Read the full write-up of Senator Waters' speech at yesterday's Revenue Summit on The Point!
#auspol @larissawaters.bsky.social
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NZ educators are not having it.
'Just absolutely ridiculous' - new school curriculum unpopular with principals
The draft curriculum documents are old fashioned, sideline Māori knowledge, and appear to be written by foreign contractors, say critics.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
NZ educators are not having it.
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Dr Assal Rad—
"Western media is too busy telling you there’s a peace plan to report this."
"Western media is too busy telling you there’s a peace plan to report this."
October 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Dr Assal Rad—
"Western media is too busy telling you there’s a peace plan to report this."
"Western media is too busy telling you there’s a peace plan to report this."
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As difficult as it is - as a parent - to look down the barrel of this future, it’s nothing compared to the horrors our kids are on track to live through.
October 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
As difficult as it is - as a parent - to look down the barrel of this future, it’s nothing compared to the horrors our kids are on track to live through.
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Gasoline cars are basically 50-liter rolling bombs we’ve all agreed to sit on. 🔥 Meanwhile, EVs are out here catching fewer fires than politicians telling the truth. 1,530 fires per 100k gas cars vs just 25 for EVs, almost zero for #LFP. The only thing burning are the myths. ⚡🚗 #EV #Safety #Firesafe
October 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Gasoline cars are basically 50-liter rolling bombs we’ve all agreed to sit on. 🔥 Meanwhile, EVs are out here catching fewer fires than politicians telling the truth. 1,530 fires per 100k gas cars vs just 25 for EVs, almost zero for #LFP. The only thing burning are the myths. ⚡🚗 #EV #Safety #Firesafe
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Take care everyone. Hydrate, look out for your pets too.
Temperatures across Australia to soar, threatening October records
A second wave of northerly winds will engulf eastern WA on Saturday and then sweep across SA and Victoria on Sunday.
Temperatures across Australia to soar, threatening October records
A second wave of northerly winds will engulf eastern WA on Saturday and then sweep across SA and Victoria on Sunday.
Two of Australia's capital cities on track for warmest October on record
Unseasonable temperatures have lasted along the eastern seaboard for weeks — which has Sydney, and possibly Brisbane, on track to observe their warmest October on record.
www.abc.net.au
October 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Take care everyone. Hydrate, look out for your pets too.
Temperatures across Australia to soar, threatening October records
A second wave of northerly winds will engulf eastern WA on Saturday and then sweep across SA and Victoria on Sunday.
Temperatures across Australia to soar, threatening October records
A second wave of northerly winds will engulf eastern WA on Saturday and then sweep across SA and Victoria on Sunday.
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Scientists double down on warnings about the Great Barrier Reef reaching a disasterous “tipping point” . But the good news is we can all do something to prevent things getting worse. Join 🧶👵 for instance! You needn’t knit and all ages welcome.
www.9news.com.au/national/glo...
www.9news.com.au/national/glo...
'We are on the verge of a change bigger than the industrial revolution'
www.9news.com.au
October 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Scientists double down on warnings about the Great Barrier Reef reaching a disasterous “tipping point” . But the good news is we can all do something to prevent things getting worse. Join 🧶👵 for instance! You needn’t knit and all ages welcome.
www.9news.com.au/national/glo...
www.9news.com.au/national/glo...
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Dunno if youse are across this... but it's forecast that in Sydney on Wednesday the temp will be 38C. (100 F)
It's OCTOBER! That's FIFTEEN DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE!
Our Government and fossil fuel companies are determined to cook us alive! Boil the oceans. Kill our forests. Turn habitat to ash.🥺😩
It's OCTOBER! That's FIFTEEN DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE!
Our Government and fossil fuel companies are determined to cook us alive! Boil the oceans. Kill our forests. Turn habitat to ash.🥺😩
October 18, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Dunno if youse are across this... but it's forecast that in Sydney on Wednesday the temp will be 38C. (100 F)
It's OCTOBER! That's FIFTEEN DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE!
Our Government and fossil fuel companies are determined to cook us alive! Boil the oceans. Kill our forests. Turn habitat to ash.🥺😩
It's OCTOBER! That's FIFTEEN DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE!
Our Government and fossil fuel companies are determined to cook us alive! Boil the oceans. Kill our forests. Turn habitat to ash.🥺😩
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Unite Against Racism Rally
Sunday 19Oct2025 11am
Belmore Park, Sydney
Superb speakers including:
• Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi
• Natasha Watt, NSW Teachers Fed
• Paul Silva, Indigenous Activist
• Shannen Potter, Labor for Civil Liberties
#auspol #NoRoomForRacism #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome
Sunday 19Oct2025 11am
Belmore Park, Sydney
Superb speakers including:
• Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi
• Natasha Watt, NSW Teachers Fed
• Paul Silva, Indigenous Activist
• Shannen Potter, Labor for Civil Liberties
#auspol #NoRoomForRacism #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome
October 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Unite Against Racism Rally
Sunday 19Oct2025 11am
Belmore Park, Sydney
Superb speakers including:
• Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi
• Natasha Watt, NSW Teachers Fed
• Paul Silva, Indigenous Activist
• Shannen Potter, Labor for Civil Liberties
#auspol #NoRoomForRacism #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome
Sunday 19Oct2025 11am
Belmore Park, Sydney
Superb speakers including:
• Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi
• Natasha Watt, NSW Teachers Fed
• Paul Silva, Indigenous Activist
• Shannen Potter, Labor for Civil Liberties
#auspol #NoRoomForRacism #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome
Australians have a right to access government information and to understand how decisions are made on their behalf. I just signed this @australiainstitute.org.au petition calling to end government secrecy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_governme...
✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: End Government Secrecy
Australians have a right to access government information and to understand how decisions are made on their behalf. But the Labor Government’s proposed changes to freedom of information laws threaten ...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
October 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Australians have a right to access government information and to understand how decisions are made on their behalf. I just signed this @australiainstitute.org.au petition calling to end government secrecy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_governme...
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While they make cuts and rollbacks to anything “climate” related, the future will continue to look grim for future generations.
Denying or ignoring won’t make it go away.
#ClimateChange
#ProtectOurPlanet
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Denying or ignoring won’t make it go away.
#ClimateChange
#ProtectOurPlanet
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Planet's first climate tipping point already reached: international study
An international report from climate scientists suggests tipping points for coral reefs have been reached, putting them at risk of dieback.
www.abc.net.au
October 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
While they make cuts and rollbacks to anything “climate” related, the future will continue to look grim for future generations.
Denying or ignoring won’t make it go away.
#ClimateChange
#ProtectOurPlanet
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Denying or ignoring won’t make it go away.
#ClimateChange
#ProtectOurPlanet
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Macquarie closes third dirty fracking deal in less than a year www.marketforces.org.au/macquarie-cl...
Macquarie closes third dirty fracking deal in less than a year - Market Forces
Macquarie is a critical financial backer of what could be Australia’s next biggest gas development in the heart of Australia’s Northern Territory, the Beetaloo Basin. This directly contradicts the ban...
www.marketforces.org.au
October 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Macquarie closes third dirty fracking deal in less than a year www.marketforces.org.au/macquarie-cl...