LouiseMorris
@louisemorris.bsky.social
Bluesky newbie Non-economist at The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au. Over 25 years working across climate, energy, forest, ocean and wildlife protection, and did time as a political 'staffer'. All views and fat fingered typos my own.
The same could be said of Australia where we treat civil participation and disobedience with a 'one and done' expection. Democracy is a participation sport that takes practice, repetition and it is a long game.
Sandieglo@sandieglo.bsky.social · 4d ago
COALition have clued onto activist orgs like Woodside, Chevron, Inpex and AEP running Australias resources projects and ruining the country. They 'will stop Australia’s resources industry being ruined by activists'. Fix prosperity put a 25% tax on gas exports. www.liberal.org.au/2026/10/10/t...
The Coalition will stop activists running Australia's resources projects and prosperity - Liberal Party of Australia
A future Coalition Government will stop Australia’s resources industry being ruined by activists, who are doing everything possible to shut down Australian
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The Trump administration announced sanctions on the International Criminal Court at quite the moment. trib.al/2qocXol
Trump Sanctions ICC Hours After Losing Nobel Prize to Former Judge
The Trump administration announced sanctions on the International Criminal Court at quite the moment.
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So, let’s take the Coalition’s concern for taxpayers seriously. If public money going to the wrong places keeps them up at night, I have a list of ways to let them sleep better.Since July 2022, we’ve forgone $77.8 billion & counting by not having a 25% tax on gas exports, end fossil fuel subsidies.
The Point@thepointau.bsky.social · 3d ago"None of it is an argument. It’s a signal. It tells Australians that money for climate action, and especially the Pacific, is money taken from them. That’s a dog whistle, and it’s cheap" writes @louisemorris.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/7D8uxvWu
"What Australia would rather not talk about" a new cartoon from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260910-what-australia-would-rather-not-talk-about
Read them and weap, then get angry and above all get active. The 2026 Kudelka Climate Cartoon Award Longlist: thepoint.com.au/new/261009-k...
Kudelka Climate Cartoon Award Longlist
View the cartoons longlisted for the Kudelka Climate Cartoon Award
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And I hope this is a picture of the two of them feeling it in their bones, particularly how eternally damning it is to let themselves be corporate captured by fossil interests
The glorious legacy of Jon Kudelka. Born out of a boycott of fossil fuel sponsorship, from this year the prize is named in honour of Jon Kudelka, whose principled stand in 2023 inspired fellow cartoonists to withdraw from the Walkley Awards. thepoint.com.au/new/261009-k...
Kudelka Climate Cartoon Award announces 2026 longlist
The annual Stanley Awards, Australia’s premier awards for cartoonists, has announced its long list for best climate cartoon honours. Born out of a boycott of fossil fuel sponsorship, from this year th...
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Things are pretty chaotic and bleak in politics atm. At the risk of being cliche, if you want a pin point of light to navigate forward, this little golden book is a beginning.
The #revolution will not be televised, but the descent into #deathcult #fascism will be.
Reuters@reuters.com · 4d agoBREAKING: The US will livestream the Army's upcoming firing squad execution in December of Nidal Hasan, who shot and killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, a Pentagon official said, in what would be an unprecedented move reut.rs/4AVlWCb
Friendly Friday reminder that since July 2022, when the #ALP government came into power, we have missed out on $77.79 billion in revenue by not having a 25% tax on gas exports. Imagine what we could be do with that $348.9 million a week!? Health, education... #auspol gas.australiainstitute.org.au
Australia's Gas Giveaway — Live Revenue Tracker
Australia Institute research shows a 25% tax on gas exports would raise $17 billion each year to fund essential services. Nearly $50 million every single day, seven days a week, flowing to multination...
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Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 5d agoBIG NEWS: Up to 75% of global energy demand could be electrified by 2050 with technologies we already have. Progress is slow and the barriers are mostly political and institutional. Today we launch the Oxford Martin Electrification Accelerator to change that. oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/electrification
"Big Coal's day in court" a new cartoon from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social See this morning's cartoon on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/261008-big-coals-day-in-court
I made the grand statement at 14 why i would not have kids, environmental decline, climate etc were top of the list. I'm well into my 40s now and have only deepened my resolve it was the right choice.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4d agoWhy people don’t want to have children any more ft.trib.al/O4zvQ9N
"COPping it, Australian style" a new cartoon by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social See this afternoon's cartoon on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/261008-copping-it-australian-style
Let’s be clear. AI is not an intelligence; it’s not being trained, it doesn’t think, it doesn’t have agency, it's not gone rogue and it’s not alive. Humanising it helps Big Tech bypass laws they’ve already broken and weaken laws they’re keen to flout. Read on: thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...
When it comes to AI, it's not "training". It's assimilation
We’re hearing a great many troubling claims at this week’s public hearings of the parliamentary inquiry into AI, and no doubt there are plenty more to come. As we follow the proceedings, it’s vital th...
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My piece today on Pre-COP moment: Tuvalu’s Minister for Climate, MainaTalia, said the work will look at supply and demand options and “mapping the likely changes in trade flows.” Read that again. Trade flows. Supply. Extraction, export and burning.' #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...
The Pacific is drawing the map while Australia digs up the road
On Wednesday in Fiji, Pacific ministers said what Australian ministers have so far avoided saying. The region needs a plan to end its dependence on coal, oil and gas. At a high-level pre-COP31 side ev...
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“I think the competitiveness of it is actually a bigger corrupting feature," Laura Tingle tells Crikey. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/07/o...
‘Addicted to drops’: Insiders spill on why Australian media is silent on One Nation’s press ban
Crikey speaks to top Australian political journalists, executives and The New Yorker's Susan Glasser about politicians' assault on the free press — and the lack of collective resistance against it.
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Happy to say a few options; tax.gas exports, higher taxes on corporations, a price on carbon, wealth tax. End fossil fuel subsidies and corporate tax breaks...it's a start.
The Saturday Paper@thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 5d ago"It is so easy to say the government should be running more surpluses, with strong employment and favourable commodity prices," writes John Hewson. "Nobody seems prepared to say how – what spending should be cut, or taxes increased?" trib.al/fbRFDaW
This lotus bud is how I’ve been feeling about the state of the world for decades
Go you good things: “Today the High Court has said what we have always known: we cannot dig up coal, ship it overseas, watch it drive climate change, and then pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us and won’t be felt by us,” Wendy Wales, DAMS HEG #auspol thepoint.com.au/new/261007-c...
Climate win: Hunter community group wins four-year legal fight in landmark High Court ruling
The High Court has ruled that NSW planning authorities must consider how burning exported coal overseas contributes to climate damage in Australia. Climate advocates say the ruling would reshape how f...
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"From the Niger Delta to the Omani desert to the arid plains of Patagonia, companies are trumpeting success even as their flares burn day in and day out" New investigation from @willevans.bsky.social @theexamination.org @bloomberg.com reveals the empty promises of the "Zero Routing Flaring" program
Oil companies say they're ending routine gas flaring. Satellite data tell a different story.
Exxon, Occidental and Diamondback are among those touting efforts to end routine gas flaring, but their flames keep spewing pollution around the world.
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Beautifully written piece from my colleague Noah on the tensions at Pre-COP, 'There’s tension in the air at this pre-COP...Tension over Australia’s continued expansion of coal and gas, even as it asks to be applauded for its climate leadership.' #auspol #COP31 thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...
Australia cannot lead abroad and expand coal at home
There’s tension in the air at this pre-COP. Tension between Pacific Island states and Australia. Tension over the world leaders who have not turned up. Tension over Australia’s continued expansion of ...
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At the close of the Leaders’ segment in Tuvalu, Climate Minister Maina Talia spoke to visitors who had just seen the frontline. COP31, he said, “cannot be another talk shop or a debate over agendas”. The discussions in Tuvalu and Fiji “must deliver strategic action”. thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...
While the cameras chased a garland snub, Tuvalu told the world what COP31 must deliver
If you only followed mainstream coverage of the Pre-COP Leaders' visit to Tuvalu, you could be forgiven for thinking the big issue was headwear.
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