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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 1d

The door is open though…

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 1d

There’s hope in Victoria for a ban on these sponsors. Pls email the Education minister commsdeclare.org/2025/10/07/v...

Victoria to review school sponsorship rules with climate in mind - Comms Declare

There’s progress in the push to protect children from coal, oil and gas propaganda in Victorian public schools.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 4d

Mining companies paid less tax last year. Annual ATO data dump is out - we name, shame and give credit #auspol

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Naming and Shaming | The West Report

YouTube video by The West Report

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 5d

Said it before, will probably die saying it, we are never going to solve the climate disinfo problem if we don't fix media. As @maxboykoff.bsky.social notes here, the public by and large learns about climate change via the media, so if the media trades in false equivalence, it's damaging!

Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 5d

Today, a look at the role the media has played in climate obstruction, with @maxboykoff.bsky.social and Melissa Aronczyk: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 7d

The new Pope has called on citizens to pressure for faster climate action.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming

In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 8d

Yep, 👍🏻 @readfearn.bsky.social is a national treasure.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

News Corp embraces fantasy genre by turning climate crisis into ‘laughable’ science fiction | Graham Readfearn

The National Climate Risk Assessment is attacked in the Daily Telegraph, while wind turbines became a frightening obstacle for firefighting planes and solar panels a source of mountains of landfill wa...

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 11d

A small reminder of Toyota’s role as a climate obstructionist.

#auspol

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 14d

Stop information pollution.

Join our hundreds of members that have declared they won’t promote climate polluters.

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 14d

Here's one of those lobbyists showing off on LinkedIn.

*Hold on!* Is that Resources Minister Madeleine King enjoying some gas-fired hospitality at the World Cup qualifier?!

Anyone recognise her? @davidpocock.bsky.social @zalisteggall.bsky.social @larissawaters.bsky.social

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 14d

We're sure @australianlabor.bsky.social greenlighting Woodside's massive North West Shelf gas development had nothing to do with the five lobbyists employed by Japanese gas company, Jera and Woodside.

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 14d

🙄 Media outlets News Corp and Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Australia both produced content for fossil fuel giants. News Corp has features sponsored by gas companies and SBS created an ad for AGL to reach multicultural audiences.

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 14d

🤑 There was a shocking 57 fossil fuel lobbying contracts in Federal Parliament alone over 2024-25, representing *up to a quarter* of all lobbyists in Canberra.

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 14d

⛽ GRACosway again leads the pack with 10 fossil fuel contracts.

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 14d

This year we've counted influence by the number of individual fossil fuel contracts, meaning we've got a better picture than ever of where the fossil fuel tentacles are reaching.

More detail in our media releases commsdeclare.org/news-and-med...

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 14d

Our annual list of fossil-fuelled agencies is out.

With help from @cleancreatives.bsky.social we've compiled a looooong list of 156 communications companies helping to delay climate action across Australia and New Zealand.

See it here commsdeclare.org/f-list/
#F-list #Auspol

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 14d

The Australian’s climate coverage also runs on natural gas.

#misinformation #newscorp

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 15d

Great episode!

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 21d

Read our submission to the federal committee on climate misinformation - including examples of fossil fuels influencing schools, sports and election ads.

#misinformation #disinformation
commsdeclare.org/2025/09/17/s...

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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 22d

Australia’s climate risk assessment prompts deluge of misinformation from the usual suspects
- Temperature Check by @readfearn.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia’s climate risk assessment prompts deluge of misinformation from the usual suspects | Temperature Check

Nationals senator Matt Canavan and Sky presenter Chris Kenny line up to misinterpret and misquote report in effort to press case against net zero

www.theguardian.com

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 23d

Falling over themselves to paint denial as “realism”. Utterly shameful #newscorp #misinformation

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 23d

The Australian’s headline writers cast doubt on the National Climate Risk Assessment. #climatedenial

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 26d

The Albanese government has put out the Friday night trash 🗑️ green-lighting Woodside’s carbon bomb 💣

This will be exporting gas right up to the time when climate change makes the top end unliveable.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australia’s biggest gas project greenlit to 2070 with ‘partial’ protection for Indigenous rock art

Environment minister Murray Watt says he’s confident new conditions imposed on the North West Shelf gas project extension will ‘protect jobs … and protect the rock art’

www.theguardian.com

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 28d

New research 🔬

The carbon pollution from ExxonMobil’s and Saudi Aramco’s fossil fuels made 51 heatwaves at least 10,000 times more likely.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time

Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation

www.theguardian.com

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 29d

Add your name to the call to make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing✍️
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Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians

Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · Sep 8

How to ruin your family, democracy and climate action in one court case.
#murdoch

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