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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 21h

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 10h

Do you remember the deal @albomp.bsky.social and @australianlabor.bsky.social did with the LNP remnants to establish a # NACC
…and how has that turned out?
Not hard to forecast the effect of a duopoly ‘deal’ on environmental protections (a political oxymoron)
#auspol

Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ 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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Felft @felft.bsky.social · 10h

Take the 15 minutes to watch this. Be clear that the agenda. Of course we know this - but it's completely ignored by the govt and media. #FreePalestine

Former UN Chief DEMOLISHES October 7 Lies

YouTube video by Double Down News

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

This video is 34 years old.

Nothing started on Oct 7.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

A complete flip of the usual pattern we see in these updates - China's and India's emissions fell, and EU and US emissions increased.....

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Global CO2 emissions plateau
Global CO2 emissions from the power sector fell marginally by 12 MtCO2 (-0.2%) to 6,963 MtCO2 in the first half of 2025. The decline was possible because solar and wind power exceeded demand growth and led to a slight fall in fossil fuel use. Without solar and wind growth, emissions would have risen by an estimated 236 MtCO2 (+3.9%) globally, which is equivalent to almost all emissions (251 MtCO2) from Africa in H1-2025.

At the country level, there was significant variation. Among the four economies that account for the majority of global emissions (64%), emissions fell in China (-46 MtCO2, -1.7%) and India (-24 MtCO2, -3.6%), as clean electricity outpaced growth in demand in those countries.

In contrast, emissions rose in the EU (+13 MtCO2, +4.8%), where strong growth in solar was outweighed by shortfalls in wind, hydro and bioenergy, leading to higher gas and coal generation. Emissions also rose in the US (+33 MtCO2, +4.3%), as clean electricity growth was smaller than demand growth, leading to an increase in coal generation, which was exacerbated by gas-to-coal switching.

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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 2d

So sick of hearing the much parroted

"Hamas killed around 1,200 people on October 7."

NO, THEY DIDN'T.

Israel killed at least half and the damage to cars (burnt out) and kibbutz buildings was from Israeli helicopter gunships.

Hamas has no such capability.

www.timesofisrael.com/idf-officers...

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 2d

@australianlabor.bsky.social you have failed to stand up against genocide and do the bare minimum. Your complicity will never be forgotten.
#Genocide #Auspol

Michael de Jong @sprakeloos.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg after being released #FreedomFlotilla

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 2d

The Federal Government funds 71% of every spit hood put on an Aboriginal child in the NT. It's time to ensure Federal Funding comes with conditions including complying with human rights law!

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yogi2.bsky.social @yogi2.bsky.social · 2d

why is it always about the Israeli hostages but never about the many thousands of Palestinians held without reason in Israeli concentration camps many of them from way back before Oct 7 they are also hostages and now proven to be subject to torture starvation and rape but never mentioned

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Felft @felft.bsky.social · 2d

I don't condone Hamas. Release the hostages. But to pretend that's all the story is, ignoring 67,000 minimum people killed by Isreal, missing that this situation is more than 50 years old, or that Netanyahu is an extremist right wing fascist is to not tell the whole story. Shame on you #abc #auspol

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Allen Dell @urgeoverkill.bsky.social · 2d

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Felft @felft.bsky.social · 3d

And yet the government clearly doesn't represent the people in so many areas... #auspol

Australians overwhelmingly back sanctions on Israel, new poll finds

'Sizeable majority' of voters across political lines want Israel to end genocide in Gaza

www.deepcutnews.com

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Felft @felft.bsky.social · 3d

Turn on the #abc to hear the guest being from the IPA. The ongoing normalisation of right wing extremism continues and I'm sick of it.

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 3d

Bingo James!

A lotta so called progressives infantilising her describing her as an autistic little girl FFS

Greta is a fearless warrior woman who just happens to be diminutive in stature like myself

nordacious @nordacious.bsky.social · 3d

how someone talks about greta thunberg is the quickest personality test there is

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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 3d

In an application of the UK's Terrorism Act, British police officers have arrested a blind man whose sole action was to publicly hold a placard bearing the phrases 'I oppose genocide' and 'I support #Palestine Action'.

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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 5d

Martin Kerr sings what I'm thinking.

WATCH:

#Resist

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 5d

Could the National Press Club be less embarrassing and less complicit in the genocide of Palestine/the West's decline into overt fascism, pretty, pretty, pretty please? 🙏 Cancelling Chris Hedges' talk on the betrayal of Palestinian journalists only proves his point. Truly, truly pathetic

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 5d

“Have you heard offshore windfarms kill whales? (They don’t.) Or that electric vehicles catch fire more often than petrol cars? (It’s the opposite.) Perhaps you’ve heard “natural” gas is clean? (It can be worse than coal.)”
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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 5d

PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them?
theconversation.com/pr-firms-are...

PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them?

This week, Australian policymakers heard about the real and growing problem of climate misinformation. Stopping it would mean regulating the PR industry.

theconversation.com

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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 5d

He combined with Dutton to not allow public NACC
Replace Albanese or watch him trash the Labor brand.

Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 5d

When you voted Labor with a landslide victory - knowing they had knocked out the NACC - you gave Albanese another opportunity to tell you again ...

𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐑 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐁𝐓

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Felft @felft.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe the #lnp should be creating its MPs on AI. Surely artificial intelligence is better than no intelligence at all? #auspol

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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 5d

Not a fan of Mark Dreyfus but it looks like @albomp.bsky.social rolled him on more open hearings for the NACC.

Albanese looking more and more like a sleeper agent for everything we don't want.

He's a blinkered autocrat. I no longer think he's cautious. I think he actively backs the wrong side.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5d

The racists in the UK are not the ones attending pro-Palestine marches this weekend.

The racists in the UK are the ones saying that you shouldn’t protest 53 Palestinians being murdered because two Jewish people were also murdered on the same day.

Some of us can condemn both.

At least 53 Palestinians killed in fresh wave of Israeli attacks on Gaza

Military offensive stepped up as Hamas leaders consider Trump’s 20-point peace plan

www.theguardian.com

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Felft @felft.bsky.social · 5d

The utter arrogance and ego of @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social trying to justify Labor's smoke and mirrors fossil fuel support policies is appalling. Excellent attempt by @climatecouncil.org.au to hold a conversation. But with this spin we're sunk. Not that we didn't already know that! #auspol

In Conversation with Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen

YouTube video by The Climate Council

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 5d

“This is not balance, unless we accept a world where truth is balanced by lies. It is an abandonment of the fundamental mission of journalists — to hold power accountable. But most egregiously, it is a terrible betrayal of our colleagues in Gaza who have been killed”

#Auspol #Genocide #NPC

Michelle Fahy @michellefahy.bsky.social · 5d

CHRIS HEDGES says his talk at National Press Club on “The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists” - focusing on the amplification of Israeli lies in the press - has been cancelled.

“In the interest of balancing out our program”, chief executive of NPC Maurice Reilly

open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists

The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

open.substack.com

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Felft @felft.bsky.social · 5d

I count myself amongst the inactive. But the more I look at our situation I know there's no comfortable way out. If we want a better world we have to find courage,get off our arses, take to the streets, strike, protest and reorganise. Knowing the empire will strike back. Who's got the mettle?

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