David Hudspeth
@davhud.bsky.social
Retired, determined to speak up for my community. Climate Justice, biodiversity. Living on Wurundjeri land.
On investigative journalism. Tassie friends in particular,
With the current focus on youth crime and detention worth considering the consequences of sweeping institutional abuse under the carpet.
With the current focus on youth crime and detention worth considering the consequences of sweeping institutional abuse under the carpet.
New:
A piece about journalism today, its trials and consolations
A piece about journalism today, its trials and consolations
A rare win
On investigative journalism and its consolations
nickfeik.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
On investigative journalism. Tassie friends in particular,
With the current focus on youth crime and detention worth considering the consequences of sweeping institutional abuse under the carpet.
With the current focus on youth crime and detention worth considering the consequences of sweeping institutional abuse under the carpet.
5% of Australians have a news subscription and 39% avoid news. www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/a...
Paint by Numbers: A health check on the Australian media industry
This year the Australian media industry managed to avoid the bloodbath of 2024. But that doesn't mean the picture is rosy.
www.crikey.com.au
December 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
5% of Australians have a news subscription and 39% avoid news. www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/a...
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Sheep and cattle farmer describes what gross misinformation about wind farms looks like in a small regional community – and what it costs the people who live there.
reneweconomy.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Sheep and cattle farmer describes what gross misinformation about wind farms looks like in a small regional community – and what it costs the people who live there.
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Powerful Owlets this morning in a Brisbane conservation park. Two weeks ago an adult was found suffering from poisoning (ban 2nd generation rodenticide!) about 1km away. We're not sure it's the papa of these two, but we're regularly checking in on them to see if they are OK and being fed (they are).
November 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Powerful Owlets this morning in a Brisbane conservation park. Two weeks ago an adult was found suffering from poisoning (ban 2nd generation rodenticide!) about 1km away. We're not sure it's the papa of these two, but we're regularly checking in on them to see if they are OK and being fed (they are).
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Read the full comment by Rick Morton: satpa.pe/6wPohd0
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Read the full comment by Rick Morton: satpa.pe/6wPohd0
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My latest on the ever-deepening inequity in our school system. You know, the one we hate to talk about. In today’s The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21678/...
The segregation crisis in schools funding
In the Albanese government’s first term, Education Minister Jason Clare observed that Australia has one of the most segregated education systems in the OECD. What is deeply shocking – though not surpr...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
September 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
My latest on the ever-deepening inequity in our school system. You know, the one we hate to talk about. In today’s The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21678/...
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"We used to consume fossil fuels
to make ourselves power
But now we just look to the sun
for each kilowatt hour"
This is the cutest and most encouraging video I've seen all week. Give it a watch - and share if you agree!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MgK...
to make ourselves power
But now we just look to the sun
for each kilowatt hour"
This is the cutest and most encouraging video I've seen all week. Give it a watch - and share if you agree!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MgK...
Running on Sunshine - Rockway Mennonite Collegiate 2025
YouTube video by Rockway Mennonite Collegiate
www.youtube.com
August 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"We used to consume fossil fuels
to make ourselves power
But now we just look to the sun
for each kilowatt hour"
This is the cutest and most encouraging video I've seen all week. Give it a watch - and share if you agree!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MgK...
to make ourselves power
But now we just look to the sun
for each kilowatt hour"
This is the cutest and most encouraging video I've seen all week. Give it a watch - and share if you agree!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MgK...
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The Coalition's Job-ready Graduate program was meant to incentivise students by making popular degrees such as humanities much more expensive. Five years on, fewer than one in 50 changed their choice due to the program, so why is Labor wedded to it? satpa.pe/KQ7jXZQ
Why Labor is stalling on real universities funding reform
The education minister has deferred action to abolish the Morrison-era Job-ready Graduates scheme, which has helped to hollow out tertiary funding and saddled students with lifelong debts.
satpa.pe
August 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Coalition's Job-ready Graduate program was meant to incentivise students by making popular degrees such as humanities much more expensive. Five years on, fewer than one in 50 changed their choice due to the program, so why is Labor wedded to it? satpa.pe/KQ7jXZQ
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"Understanding how Australia has cooked the books to create the illusion of climate progress is headache-inducing. It’s important, though, in order to see that raising ambition without raising integrity won’t necessarily cut emissions." satpa.pe/Q3u86az
Climate target malpractice
satpa.pe
August 7, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"Understanding how Australia has cooked the books to create the illusion of climate progress is headache-inducing. It’s important, though, in order to see that raising ambition without raising integrity won’t necessarily cut emissions." satpa.pe/Q3u86az
Certainly not an evidence based approach from Victorian Environment Minister Steve Dimopoulos or the ETU. Environmental decline is not in the interest of workers.
The Victorian public was promised more than an end to logging. They were promised a national park. Instead, the government has expanded recreational shooting across 130,000 hectares of existing national parks. http://satpa.pe/WbdHKEI
How ETU shooters foiled a national park
ANALYSIS: The Electrical Trades Union has used its political leverage to keep Victoria’s Central Highlands open for hunting, in the midst of a national backtracking on forest conservation.
satpa.pe
August 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Certainly not an evidence based approach from Victorian Environment Minister Steve Dimopoulos or the ETU. Environmental decline is not in the interest of workers.
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"Understanding how Australia has cooked the books to create the illusion of climate progress is headache-inducing. It’s important, though, in order to see that raising ambition without raising integrity won’t necessarily cut emissions." http://satpa.pe/9DX83pv
Climate target malpractice
satpa.pe
August 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
"Understanding how Australia has cooked the books to create the illusion of climate progress is headache-inducing. It’s important, though, in order to see that raising ambition without raising integrity won’t necessarily cut emissions." http://satpa.pe/9DX83pv
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Aboriginal children with disabilities to bear the brunt of Northern Territory Government's policy failures www.croakey.org/aboriginal-c... #publichealth
Aboriginal children with disabilities to bear the brunt of Northern Territory Government's policy failures
www.croakey.org
July 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Aboriginal children with disabilities to bear the brunt of Northern Territory Government's policy failures www.croakey.org/aboriginal-c... #publichealth
Supreme Court Challenge to North West Shelf chuffed.org/project/1358...
Supreme Court Challenge to North West Shelf
We’re taking the WA Government to court over Woodside’s climate-wrecking gas project.
chuffed.org
June 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Supreme Court Challenge to North West Shelf chuffed.org/project/1358...
Trump hurting us all. www.theage.com.au/healthcare/a...
‘A bomb thrown into the middle of science’: Trump cuts hurt Australian medical research
Local research institutes are suspending projects and laying off staff as US funds dry up.
www.theage.com.au
June 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Trump hurting us all. www.theage.com.au/healthcare/a...
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Today's front page: "Exclusive: PBS listings frozen over Trump’s executive order". https://trib.al/9YjpoC4
June 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today's front page: "Exclusive: PBS listings frozen over Trump’s executive order". https://trib.al/9YjpoC4
The real reason for the North West Shelf project www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The real reason for the North West Shelf project
The polluting impact of fossil fuels is not new to those who peddle them. Nearly 30 years ago, when I was an executive at BP, we acknowledged climate change and what it would bring – despite others in...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
June 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The real reason for the North West Shelf project www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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Just putting this out there for all the people who think we're going too fast on decarbonisation
Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.
Earth is likely to cross a key climate threshold in two years
A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the world’s most famous climate goal.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Just putting this out there for all the people who think we're going too fast on decarbonisation
Camperdown traces www.themonthly.com.au/june-2025/na...
Camperdown traces
The 70-year-old author revisits the south-west Victorian town where, half a century ago, he was a cub reporter at The Chronicle
www.themonthly.com.au
June 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Camperdown traces www.themonthly.com.au/june-2025/na...
Could a river sue a corporation? Robert Macfarlane’s books change the world – now he’s advocating for the world’s waterways
theconversation.com/could-a-rive...
theconversation.com/could-a-rive...
Could a river sue a corporation? Robert Macfarlane’s books change the world – now he’s advocating for the world’s waterways
The revered nature writer asks ambitious questions in his latest work, written at a tipping point for the world’s climate.
theconversation.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Could a river sue a corporation? Robert Macfarlane’s books change the world – now he’s advocating for the world’s waterways
theconversation.com/could-a-rive...
theconversation.com/could-a-rive...
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Excellent thread. It makes zero sense to claim fossil fuelled cars that haul around a battery claim as 'zero emissions'.
Car companies have been wildly overstating their climate benefits, and they're a huge cost burden on consumers.
Car companies have been wildly overstating their climate benefits, and they're a huge cost burden on consumers.
NEW: The Government’s recently announced changes to the ZEV Mandate could result in up to 500,000 additional plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) on UK roads by 2030.
That’s bad for the climate and consumers. Here’s why 🧵
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
That’s bad for the climate and consumers. Here’s why 🧵
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Weakening of UK EV sales rules ‘likely to result in significantly more carbon emissions’
Analysis suggests there could be 500,000 additional plug-in hybrid electric cars on Britain’s roads by 2030
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Excellent thread. It makes zero sense to claim fossil fuelled cars that haul around a battery claim as 'zero emissions'.
Car companies have been wildly overstating their climate benefits, and they're a huge cost burden on consumers.
Car companies have been wildly overstating their climate benefits, and they're a huge cost burden on consumers.
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The Albanese government has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to ratify the Global Ocean Treaty and champion a protected international ocean sanctuary in the Tasman Sea where marine life and ecosystems can recover and thrive. 👇
www.greenpeace.org.au/act/oceans
www.greenpeace.org.au/act/oceans
Take action to protect our oceans
Climate change, pollution and overfishing are pushing our oceans to the brink of collapse. Food security and the livelihoods of billions of people hang in the balance. But there is hope.
Sign our pet...
www.greenpeace.org.au
May 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
The Albanese government has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to ratify the Global Ocean Treaty and champion a protected international ocean sanctuary in the Tasman Sea where marine life and ecosystems can recover and thrive. 👇
www.greenpeace.org.au/act/oceans
www.greenpeace.org.au/act/oceans
