Scott McWhirter
@scottmcwhirter.bsky.social
Living on Darug lands. Work in Higher Ed, but views are entirely my own fault. Daily fails and passing fancies a specialty.
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If Merrick Garland had done his job properly, this would also be Trump.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If Merrick Garland had done his job properly, this would also be Trump.
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REPORTER: What kind of concessions is Hitler and the Germans going to have to make?
CHAMBERLAIN: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land.
CHAMBERLAIN: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land.
REPORTER: What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
REPORTER: What kind of concessions is Hitler and the Germans going to have to make?
CHAMBERLAIN: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land.
CHAMBERLAIN: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land.
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An excerpt from Senator Fatima Payman's brilliant essay from @australiainstitute.org.au latest book, "A Time For Bravery".
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
The Floor I Crossed Was Between Fear and Freedom
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
An excerpt from Senator Fatima Payman's brilliant essay from @australiainstitute.org.au latest book, "A Time For Bravery".
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Rather topical given Hanson's bullshit yesterday
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Paying Nauru billions to break international law for us
Last night @davidpocock.bsky.social and I read onto the Hansard an interview by the President of Nauru that the Albanese Government has been desperately trying to keep secret.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Paying Nauru billions to break international law for us
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The dismantling of Science in #Australia continues...
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The dismantling of Science in #Australia continues...
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience
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Environment groups are technicians trying to help maintain the life support systems on our spaceship. Their interests are definitely everyone's interests
Sally Sara #RNbreakfast on the #environment Bill:
"industry and environment groups continue to lobby for their interests".
No. Industry groups lobby for their interests/profits.
Environment groups lobby for the national interest, and future generations.
More 'both sides' media crap. #auspol
"industry and environment groups continue to lobby for their interests".
No. Industry groups lobby for their interests/profits.
Environment groups lobby for the national interest, and future generations.
More 'both sides' media crap. #auspol
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Environment groups are technicians trying to help maintain the life support systems on our spaceship. Their interests are definitely everyone's interests
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We had only recently passed 350 ppm when I started my PhD in Earth System Science, already a value understood to be dangerous and a threat to society.
And now, 33 years and 30 COPs later, we are at a value that is unprecedented for the past 3 million years and maybe even the past 8 million years.
And now, 33 years and 30 COPs later, we are at a value that is unprecedented for the past 3 million years and maybe even the past 8 million years.
425.82 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 20-Nov-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
We had only recently passed 350 ppm when I started my PhD in Earth System Science, already a value understood to be dangerous and a threat to society.
And now, 33 years and 30 COPs later, we are at a value that is unprecedented for the past 3 million years and maybe even the past 8 million years.
And now, 33 years and 30 COPs later, we are at a value that is unprecedented for the past 3 million years and maybe even the past 8 million years.
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I’m a former submariner who’s been to sea on conventional, AIP and nuclear powered submarines. I’m a former senator who knows how Canberra works. Tomorrow night I will participate in an webinar about #AUKUS. It’s not a podcast, but a conversation you can join in on. #auspol
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Listening to @amyremeikis.bsky.social talk to @seankelly.bsky.social about how Albanese pretty much prevents cabinet ministers from doing anything he doesn’t want…. And pondering how long they will allow that to keep happening
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Listening to @amyremeikis.bsky.social talk to @seankelly.bsky.social about how Albanese pretty much prevents cabinet ministers from doing anything he doesn’t want…. And pondering how long they will allow that to keep happening
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I meant to say this yesterday and forgot…but I don’t think it’s ever too late to say that Pauline Hanson is a mean-spirited, bigoted cow.
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I meant to say this yesterday and forgot…but I don’t think it’s ever too late to say that Pauline Hanson is a mean-spirited, bigoted cow.
For everyone that voted @australianlabor.bsky.social at the last federal election to avoid Dutton’s swingeing cuts to the public service and CSIRO, poor governance, inaction on gambling, shithouse environmental policy and attacks on higher Ed. How you feeling? #auspol
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
For everyone that voted @australianlabor.bsky.social at the last federal election to avoid Dutton’s swingeing cuts to the public service and CSIRO, poor governance, inaction on gambling, shithouse environmental policy and attacks on higher Ed. How you feeling? #auspol
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@albomp.bsky.social Albo, why don't you grow a pair and do what @mark-carney.bsky.social just did at G20. Telling Mein Trumpf to GAGF & GAFH.
@senatorwong.bsky.social
Ditch AUKUS QUAD and cancel Nuke Subs NOW NOW and NOW
youtu.be/1ARUwzUiiT0?...
@senatorwong.bsky.social
Ditch AUKUS QUAD and cancel Nuke Subs NOW NOW and NOW
youtu.be/1ARUwzUiiT0?...
Canada PM Mark Carney On How G20 Without U.S. Is Proof That Global South & Multilateralism Is Rising
YouTube video by Mint
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November 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
@albomp.bsky.social Albo, why don't you grow a pair and do what @mark-carney.bsky.social just did at G20. Telling Mein Trumpf to GAGF & GAFH.
@senatorwong.bsky.social
Ditch AUKUS QUAD and cancel Nuke Subs NOW NOW and NOW
youtu.be/1ARUwzUiiT0?...
@senatorwong.bsky.social
Ditch AUKUS QUAD and cancel Nuke Subs NOW NOW and NOW
youtu.be/1ARUwzUiiT0?...
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@australianlabor.bsky.social and @albomp.bsky.social are hypocritical at best
Giving it all away is just plain colonial stupidity we're not a Colony (maybe I'm wrong there and in reality we are a Colony of The Global North. Hardly different from Israel, white folk ruling someone else's country)
Giving it all away is just plain colonial stupidity we're not a Colony (maybe I'm wrong there and in reality we are a Colony of The Global North. Hardly different from Israel, white folk ruling someone else's country)
Since Paris, Australia has increased fossil fuel Production by 77% - worst globally
Australia is a rogue state
And you @albomp.bsky.social , can get fucked with your stupid commentary about gas being needed as a transition fuel.
Australia is a rogue state
And you @albomp.bsky.social , can get fucked with your stupid commentary about gas being needed as a transition fuel.
While the message out of COP and the EU seems to be that we can keep burning fossil fuels, the message from the UN in their methane report is different.
"This leads the UN to conclude that we cannot just reduce emissions from oil and gas emissions, we must also reduce oil and gas production."
"This leads the UN to conclude that we cannot just reduce emissions from oil and gas emissions, we must also reduce oil and gas production."
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
@australianlabor.bsky.social and @albomp.bsky.social are hypocritical at best
Giving it all away is just plain colonial stupidity we're not a Colony (maybe I'm wrong there and in reality we are a Colony of The Global North. Hardly different from Israel, white folk ruling someone else's country)
Giving it all away is just plain colonial stupidity we're not a Colony (maybe I'm wrong there and in reality we are a Colony of The Global North. Hardly different from Israel, white folk ruling someone else's country)
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I remember my union tried to get members to campaign for Labor this election on the basis of Peter Dutton promising to cut our jobs - I wonder what our officials think about that now
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I remember my union tried to get members to campaign for Labor this election on the basis of Peter Dutton promising to cut our jobs - I wonder what our officials think about that now
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As EPBC reforms get framed as political tussles & deal-making, don't forget ongoing colonialism, what's at stake on Indigenous lands, and their warnings that bad amendments & inadequate environmental laws "risk irreversible damage to country, culture and communities"
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
As EPBC reforms get framed as political tussles & deal-making, don't forget ongoing colonialism, what's at stake on Indigenous lands, and their warnings that bad amendments & inadequate environmental laws "risk irreversible damage to country, culture and communities"
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'the economy' is people burning through slabs of glass and silicon at an absurd rate even though they don't need or want to
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
'the economy' is people burning through slabs of glass and silicon at an absurd rate even though they don't need or want to
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November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Hmm I wonder why Labor would do this? It's a mystery... #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
David Pocock says PM ‘seems to be holding up’ gambling ad reform – as it happened
This blog is now closed
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Hmm I wonder why Labor would do this? It's a mystery... #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Your Labor government ending the legal principle of innocent until proven guilty, but only for people on welfare. I swear these fucking Tories in sheep’s clothing are worse every day #auspol
Senator Thorpe criticises the government for ignoring these 100+ experts and groups to sneak the amendment through "without any scrutiny"
"I'd be putting my head down in shame too, Minister"
"I'd be putting my head down in shame too, Minister"
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Your Labor government ending the legal principle of innocent until proven guilty, but only for people on welfare. I swear these fucking Tories in sheep’s clothing are worse every day #auspol
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Minister Gallagher refuses to answer basic questions from @davidpocock.bsky.social about whether they got legal advice that giving cops these powers to cancel welfare payments is constitutional
"This is extraordinary that the government won't even confirm"
"This is extraordinary that the government won't even confirm"
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Minister Gallagher refuses to answer basic questions from @davidpocock.bsky.social about whether they got legal advice that giving cops these powers to cancel welfare payments is constitutional
"This is extraordinary that the government won't even confirm"
"This is extraordinary that the government won't even confirm"
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Literally nobody wants war with China. Nobody except armament manufacturers and politicians. But we are being trained to think war with China is necessary. I've yet to hear of one good reason why, but I have plenty of reasons why we should not. But I can feel it becoming normalised.
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Literally nobody wants war with China. Nobody except armament manufacturers and politicians. But we are being trained to think war with China is necessary. I've yet to hear of one good reason why, but I have plenty of reasons why we should not. But I can feel it becoming normalised.
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The fools who sold us $375 billion AUKUS nuclear submarines are now telling us they will cost more, a lot more. Their war plans with China, their surrender to Trump and their back of-the-envelope costings are all super dangerous. Don’t trust them.
November 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The fools who sold us $375 billion AUKUS nuclear submarines are now telling us they will cost more, a lot more. Their war plans with China, their surrender to Trump and their back of-the-envelope costings are all super dangerous. Don’t trust them.
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the Minns government would sooner silence truth telling Blackfullas than at the NSW Parliament.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-premie...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-premie...
NSW Premier's Department threatens to fire First Nations musician over 'No Pride in Genocide' slogan
Department targets performer over pro-Palestine messaging on guitar
www.deepcutnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
the Minns government would sooner silence truth telling Blackfullas than at the NSW Parliament.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-premie...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-premie...
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Hospitals in Gaza are running out of essential supplies, with new waves of Israeli airstrikes killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 100 in recent days, medical and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory have said.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as Israeli airstrikes continue, medics say
‘Severe lack’ in territory where Israeli strikes have killed more than 50 people and injured over 100 in recent days
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hospitals in Gaza are running out of essential supplies, with new waves of Israeli airstrikes killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 100 in recent days, medical and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory have said.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...