The ‘extremely effective’ campaigns undermining support for renewables – Full Story podcast #climatecrisis #RenewableEnergy #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The ‘extremely effective’ campaigns undermining support for renewables – podcast

The Guardian’s environment and climate correspondent Graham Readfearn joins Reged Ahmad to unpack Australia’s relationship with renewables

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Excellent! #AusPol #NTPol #WaterRights www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

High court blocks plan to extract two Sydney Harbours’ worth of groundwater from the desert

NT government had granted 30-year licence to grow fruit and vegetables but native title holders say it threatened sacred sites and the fragile desert environment

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Just once I’d like Greenblat, Ryvchin, Segal et al to acknowledge and condemn this ‘settler’ terrorist behavior. Their silence says everything. Mind you our media never asks, yet fall over themselves to demand Muslim Australians to condemn ISIS. 😏

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · 17h ago

Graves. Mosques. Beehives. Greenhouses. This is the destruction left behind by Israeli settlers after one week of attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. 🤬🇮🇱♾️🤬🇮🇱♾️😢

He is a cretin. Sunshine Coast always elects cringe. Peter Slipper, Ted OBrien, the weather woman Rosanna Natoli. It's bonkers, the number of racist LNP ONP upper middle bogans retire there. + the many white only retirement "lifestyle" villages. I thought Vic Park stadium would be their undoing.

Agree, with Lord Pocket Square shooting his mouth everywhere it has a lot of QLD remembering Newman, they didn't win by much and the Koala 🐨 killing is not going over well

Sausage roll vs. meat pie politics. I so hope he does sausage roll the meat pie eating Premier. Qld would very likely return to sensible ALP governance at the next election.

@angry-goddess.bsky.social · 22h ago

Looks like Lord Pocket Square Bleijie is going for the top job with help grom Rinehart #QLDLNP

"Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has said he will use federal power to force the Queensland and NT governments to fall into line with his plan to require data centres to fully offset their electricity use with investments in renewable energy." Good. www.smh.com.au/environment/...

‘We will use all the powers available’: Bowen lays down law to states on data centres

Energy Minister Chris Bowen insists the data centre boom and his plans to drive down Australian emissions can co-exist.

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After a Hancock Prospecting spokesperson praised any govt effort to reduce roadblocks for critical minerals projects, Bleijie said Rinehart had not raised such matters before he intro'd a controversial draft bill boosting state approval powers. But said he'd be happy to talk her or anyone

On what the pair had discussed in their two meetings (and the swim event), Bleijie said he had answered the question, before adding: "We talked about the weather. How’s that? We talked about the Brisbane Times misinformation".

My 82 yr old Mum viscerally hates him!

Matt Dennien@mattdennien.bsky.social · 14h ago

You can read the full write-up here (www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/que...) or our story from this morning also linking out to last week's rowing letter here (www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/que...)

BREAKING: We’re helping to deliver cheaper energy for businesses, farms and community organisations. We’re putting more rooftops to work by expanding support for medium-sized solar systems and cutting installation costs by around 20%.

Jess Wilson repeatedly dodges questions on whether One Nation Vic leader Warren Pickering’s status as a conspiracy theorist is ‘alarming’, until finally admitting she finds it “very normal” 🙄 What’s ‘alarming’ is the prospect of a Wilson-Pickering government running Victoria.

PRESS REVIEW 05.08.26 What will be the consequences of Ukrainian drone strikes on Wildberries warehouses? One Russian paper today: “Russian enterprises will face a deterioration in financial performance due to rising logistics costs & damage to warehouse infrastructure.” youtu.be/SQIsX5vajIg

Russia's platform economy "threatened" by Ukrainian drone strikes, warns Russian paper.

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Gold Coast Votes is a community group which aims to strengthen democracy by listening to the people https://goldcoastvotes.org/

Best news I have heard all week! #Qld govt (my state) needs a slap! #QldPol #RenewablePower #DataCentres www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Chris Bowen vows to override Queensland and NT to force renewables-powered AI datacentres

Energy minister says Australian households and energy reliability will be protected by new federal legislation

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"We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor." [Martin Luther King, Jr., US civil-rights leader, 1929-1968]

Sounds like idiocy by the Qld Libs, it fits the #Lib brand very well #AusPol #QldPol. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/05/queensland-office-for-women-website-gender-ntwnfb

Mentions of ‘gender’ scrubbed from Queensland Office for Women website amid alleged effort to ‘dewokify’

Comparisons of live and archived pages show more than 20 mentions have been removed, including in reference to the gender pay gap

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The look you give when Victorians discover you are a self- described conspiracy theorist and committed anti-vaxxer, but you lead a political party that wants to govern the state.

Hey @albomp.bsky.social Why are you calling Kyle Sandilands to tell him you miss chatting to him, when he has personally threatened to burn down the houses of & set his underworld mates on @mfwitches.bsky.social admins? You clearly don’t like women much. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainmen...

The difference between a war and a genocide. And in addition to this, a war is when TWO sides are fighting.

We can have politicians like this that represent our interests and ask hard questions of institutions and organisations, or the stupid ones. Guess which the #auspol media give more time and space.

stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sarah Hanson-Young tears into ACMA following their Senate evidence, saying they’re an “absolute lapdog” for the gambling industry. “I don’t know what those people do”🔥

Yeesh. It was pretty forseeable well before 2022 that by the end of the decade, LGC prices are going be much closer to $0 than they are $50. Leaving a business financially exposed to LGC prices was pretty silly.

What an opportunity.

Dr swift parrot@teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 2d ago

Huge property for sale in Tasmania in core swift parrot breeding habitat if there’s any philanthropists out there seeking to protect some birds and bush! Lake Leake is an important site for parrots but the broader landscape is being savagely logged www.realestate.com.au/property-lif...

Richard Marles: goes on 2GB, agrees wholeheartedly with Fordham's Gina Rinehart talking points, having never heard - much less understood - the concept of satire. When's Dick joining One Nation? No loss, Corio ... #auspol

Worth repeating This year will be the hottest year of your life This year may be the coolest year of the rest of your life www.linkedin.com/posts/raywil...

This year will be the hottest year of your life This year may be the coolest year of the rest of your life Estimate global temperatures for 2026 and 2027 enhanced by record-smashing El Niño event… |...

This year will be the hottest year of your life This year may be the coolest year of the rest of your life Estimate global temperatures for 2026 and 2027 enhanced by record-smashing El Niño event co...

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Imagine if The Age / SMH, Guardian, ABC and SBS all blanket banned reporting anything at all on One Nation. Add in Channel 9 as well as they own Age / SMH It’s lofty and a pipe dream and it will never happen, but I think it would have a great effect  -

For all the Queenslanders worth getting on board this one. Mandate Renewable Energy and Water Security for AI Data Centres Let Crisafulli know we are unimpressed with his shit response to building data centres #auspol #qldpol www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-...

Conservatives once railed against the permissive society. As defenders of faith, family and flag, they lamented falling social standards and feared the loss of Judeo-Christian values. Now, their vulgar champions lead the descent

"The people who spent years blaming migrants [for rising house prices] should now have to explain why their theory no longer fits the facts. More importantly, journalists should be pushing them to explain why," writes @maiyazize.bsky.social in @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

House prices are cooling, exposing a stubborn political narrative for what it is

After years of seemingly unstoppable growth, house prices have begun to moderate. For aspiring home buyers, that will come as welcome relief. But it should also prompt journalists to ask whether they ...

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