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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 23m

I agree they shouldn't have approved any of the Adani bullshit, but I also understand why they did - they were mines to nowhere. The big carbon bomb Adani wanted was told to get fucked, they made a mini mine, and it's up shit creek. Like all of the Adani stuff was going to be regardless of size.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1h

It's funny eh - it's a real thing!

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1h

Shift forward ten years later - identical question. 70/30 pro reef.

Shift forward last year, 75/25 pro reef.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1h

They haven't for a long time I can remember back in the Qld mining boom we asked a polling question: "When it comes to the Great Barrier Reef and mining, do you think the balance has shifted towards ming at the reefs expense, or shifted towards preserving the reef at minings expense". 60/40 pro reef

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1h

Not really. They're doing a little bit more than the bare minimum so as not to scare a pack of horses that no longer exist.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1h

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

But what if the marginal cost of eggs was approximately irrelevant to disposable income?

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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 1h

This could have been Australia, but thanks to John Howard, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison, the Minerals Council and the BCA, we wasted nearly 20 years subsidising gas and coal instead. What a waste.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1h

China ≠ just coal plants and solar exports. The deeper shift: electrifying everything it can. Strategic, because China relies on imported fossil fuels. Coal is still king in the power mix—for now. But the balance is changing year by year.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1h

I am extremely looking forward to the 8000 words in your provided footnotes! Doing them in font size 4 was <kisses fingers> 🤣

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1h

But it has no significant political persuasion effect on the relatively small audience who reads it!

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1h

They don't really ever win here - but they do get their balls tickled in embarrassingly public ways.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1h

Callide is great - we've saved a few explosions for later! 🤣

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1h

Tempted to start up the 274,355th podcast of "why you're all fucking wrong" 🤣

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 1h

The bemusing part of this is even though the Qld coal fleet is youngest in the country, they won't last to the 2040s. The Qld government knows this - but throwing red meat to their idiot wing and their donors is an aesthetic I suppose.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power reut.rs/42BhtoJ

Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power

Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables and in turn making national emissions reduction targets harder to achieve.

reut.rs

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 2h

A case in point of low ALP horizons. They believe that passing new enviro laws with the LNP will:
1. Keep them bipartisan and long term
2. Keep resource companies at bay

The LNP are bad faith actors, mining owners hate you but new electoral funding laws nueter them
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...?

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...

www.abc.net.au

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 2h

NRL every day of the week

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 2h

The LNP world hasn't been able to find their political arse with a map, a GPS system and a set of directions for a while now because they became deprofessionalised. But Labor's excuse is purely one of their own comfort with low horizons, and only having to beat the incompetence in front of them.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 2h

Gives the government cover to send Brereton to the knackery, revisit public hearings procedures, update prioritisation of investigative areas etc.

Simple low hanging fruit stuff with no downsides.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 2h

Reforming the NACC is some low hanging fruit shit. The simple political lines that "We created the first national corruption commission, it's done a god job, but we've seen where the rubber meets the road that it needs to be more robust. <insert actual reform>" Vote winner with easy Senate passage.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 3h

If I was a Parliamentarian, I too would be keen to have Pocock booted from the parliamentary sports club, simply on the basis of having my arse kicked so comprehensively and so fucking often. People who are really good at one sport are generally good at every single sport (except one rando sport)

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 4h

"I don't understand why you and other conflate his motives and his actions."

Because he tried to prevent war crimes investigations!

He tried to put a very narrow set of truths out there, singularly to prevent the actual truth of Australian war crimes from being uncovered and publicly exposed!

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 5h

He tried to prevent war crimes investigations! That was his purpose!

This is not in dispute!

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 6h

Quite possible!

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 6h

No - his purpose and point was to stop the investigations, and that drum banging was just part of his idiot PR spiel.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 7h

Yes - every single story about the details of this case!

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 7h

Another reminder - because far too many people don't seem to know it - this guy tried to *PREVENT* war crimes investigations. The only whistle he tried to blow was his own.

Why some of you held him up as some kind of heroic figure makes my brain bleed.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 7h

The former military lawyer was sentenced to five years and eight months in jail after sharing classified material with journalists in a case that has raised debate about whistleblower laws.

David McBride loses last-ditch effort to overturn conviction

The former military lawyer was sentenced to five years and eight months in jail after sharing classified material with journalists in a case that has raised debate about whistleblower laws.

www.abc.net.au

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