Tone Goodfellow
@goodfellow.bsky.social
Adelaide/Ballarat. Spokesperson - Climate Media Centre. Master of Environment Melb uni. BNEWS Hons - UTAS. helping Ballarat Community Alliance, Ballarat Climate Action Network. Proud member of the ASU
WATCH: ProPublica & @drilledmedia.bsky.social found that oil and gas companies have been funding climate research at prestigious US universities for 30+ years. This research fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels: propub.li/3TTgAGp
"Australia’s biggest industrial emitters are being paid to pollute, new analysis finds" Tegan George thepoint.com.au/new/260731-a...
Australia’s biggest industrial emitters are being paid to pollute, new analysis finds
New analysis has found Australia’s biggest industrial emitters received around $22 in Fuel Tax Credit rebates for every dollar they spent complying with the federal government’s emissions reduction po...
thepoint.com.au
Lily D'Ambrosio is one of the best energy and climate Ministers this country has ever had. Exceptionally smart, delivered more results and genuinely ambitious policy than any other minister in the nation. All while dealing with the misogyny and classism of our media. Leaves a big legacy.
Breaking: Victorian ministers Harriet Shing and Lily D'Ambrosio announce retirement
Health Minister Harriet Shing and Energy Minister Lily D'Ambrosio have announced they will step down from cabinet.
abc.net.au
Lily D’Ambrosio, VIC Minister for Climate Action, Energy & Resources has announced today that she is retiring from politics. We acknowledge her vision, her remarkable commitment to her portfolios & her achievements in transforming energy supply in the state. www.melbournefoe.org.au/minister_d_a...
Lily D’Ambrosio steps down – the minister who rebuilt Victoria’s energy system
Mobilise! Resist! Transform!
melbournefoe.org.au
From social licence to social value in the energy transition www.re-alliance.org.au/social_value...
From social licence to social value in the energy transition
This discussion paper looks at how the concept of social value could deliver genuine and lasting value for our communities in the renewable energy shift.
re-alliance.org.au
"It’s believed to be the first co-ownership deal in the sector that does not involve Native Title or other legal rights." reneweconomy.com.au/cis-bakes-in...
CIS bakes in First Nations equity, revenue sharing deal for next renewables and storage tenders
Capacity in upcoming renewable and storage tenders under the CIS to be reserved for projects that lock in equity deals with First Nations groups.
reneweconomy.com.au
West Papua 74,297 soldiers. 103,196 security personnel. More than 122,000 internally displaced Papuans. These aren’t the numbers of a normal law enforcement operation—they describe one of the world’s most heavily militarised conflicts that barely makes international headlines.
New Multatuli Project report exposes disproportional security force presence in West Papua -
New Project Multatuli investigation finds that Indonesia currently deploys 74,297 soldiers in West Papua, a figure that is disproportionate.
humanrightsmonitor.org
A quick hot take on Albanese's AI plan from a climate / energy perspective: ultimately nothing new, but reading between the lines, a hint at weakening a 100% clean standard specifically to allow for gas. www.pm.gov.au/media/ai-aus...
With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the late 1800s – and potentially by a truly mind-blowing margin. The median estimate is now 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record (2.75C). www.theclimatebrink....
Imagine if we thought about stopping burning fossil fuels and investing in renewable energy instead? Imagine if we invested in tackling the climate crisis, better cyber security and better resilience towards future pandemics. We can do all of these things - we just need the right people in charge.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w agoBritons urged to take ‘small steps’ to prepare for potential national crises
Look at all that farmland going to waste for the sake of renewables what a disgrace!! #auspol #renewables
The annual event is an opportunity to honour one of the world’s oldest continuing cultures, but its origins are in Australia’s first civil rights movements.
Half a century on, NAIDOC Week is still both a party and a protest
theconversation.com
“forensic account of how the Murdoch empire bullies, intimidates and destroys individual citizens and governments” theconversation.com/getting-murd...
Getting Murdoched is a fascinating study of the Murdoch media’s bullying tactics
Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson have not written another biography of Rupert Murdoch, but a forensic account of how his empire intimidates and destroys.
theconversation.com
“BP sought out researchers who were already thinking about how to address climate change without replacing fossil fuels”
Royce Kurmelovs@roycerk2.bsky.social · last mo."For a generation, people learning how to address global warming were taught the ideas in the “Wedges” paper. What they didn’t learn was this: “Wedges” was significantly shaped by the British oil giant BP — one of the single global entities most responsible for causing climate change."
"For a generation, people learning how to address global warming were taught the ideas in the “Wedges” paper. What they didn’t learn was this: “Wedges” was significantly shaped by the British oil giant BP — one of the single global entities most responsible for causing climate change."
Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
propublica.org
Ten Australians harmed by the climate crisis have filed a human rights case with the United Nations over Australia's coal and gas exports. They are represented by the Human Rights Law Centre, Environmental Justice Australia, and Earthjustice.
Australia's coal and gas exports violate our human rights, group says in new UN case
The group says that it is unlawful for Australia to continue approving fossil fuel exports without protecting its citizens.
bbc.com
This is well worth reading redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/one-nation...
One Nation: An Information Operation Pushing on an Open Door
One Nation's surge isn't a lurch to the far right. It's what happens when a sophisticated information operation meets an electorate the major parties stopped listening to.
redbridgeintel.substack.com
💚 Australia 🇦🇺 now has more battery storage per person than any other country. Why? Because it paired rooftop solar with policies that helped households install batteries at scale. The lesson is simple: when governments create the right incentives, clean technology can move remarkably fast. 🇦🇺🔋
“A report by..economist Saul Eslake backed Marinus Link as an investment in the national interest that will boost TAS energy sector development. It follows a report..which concluded business case..appears increasingly unviable due to tech & market developments” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
Marinus will break energy 'deadlock' hobbling Tasmania, economist says
An economist says Marinus Link remains an investment in the national interest and will shore up Tasmania's energy security. It follows a report last week questioning the project's business case.
abc.net.au
"Bonn: hot-takes...progress on fossil phaseout roadmaps (see Brazil’s presentation on this in Bonn here) look like the two big ticket items for COP31...may bypass an awkward consensus scrap and land in the ‘Action Agenda’ COP slot." @ed-king.bsky.social climatediplobrief.substack.com/p/climate-di...
Climate Diplomacy Brief special edition - a tale of two climate summits
UN talks wrap in Bonn but the real energy and dynamism seems to be in London - where CEOs, ministers and hacks gather to talk business
climatediplobrief.substack.com
NEW – Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2026 UN climate conference | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/uLCxTxN
Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 2mo agoAs is the annual tradition, we hope many of you will take the opportunity to use the Climate Stripes this week to start important conversations about the risks from, and solutions to, climate change. Officially, #ShowYourStripes for 2026 is on Sat 20th June. www.ShowYourStripes.info
The fact that there was a 'Defend the Science: Friends of Science Press Conference' at the Bonn Climate meeting is utterly embarrassing, in 2026 we're still at square one, the process is broken - captured by fossil fuel interests www.climatechangenews.com/2026/06/17/s...
Tone Goodfellow@goodfellow.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Saudi Arabia and India were among those “undermining” climate science," from the latest mid-year UN climate conferences held in Bonn - there needs to be drastic changes otherwise the next COP is going to be another dead end
📣 The #JuneClimateMeetings ended yesterday, amid growing concerns over the ability of the United Nations climate process to deliver the scale and speed of action required by the climate crisis. Read our closing statement: www.ciel.org/news/june-cl... A 🧵
"Saudi Arabia and India were among those “undermining” climate science," from the latest mid-year UN climate conferences held in Bonn - there needs to be drastic changes otherwise the next COP is going to be another dead end
Tone Goodfellow@goodfellow.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Fossil fuel interests influence UNFCCC decision-making at multiple levels. They shaped the UNFCCC’s founding framework, embedding rules that allow individual countries to block progress.” www.transparency.org/en/press/fos...
To write this without mentioning racism is a journalistic failure…also who is the audience for this?
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2mo agoWhat is 'monoculturalism' and what does it look like in practice?
“Waters... says her leadership style is more collaborative than the presidential style amplified in the media” www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
'Retreating' or playing the long game: Have the Greens faded from the spotlight?
In a sit-down with SBS News, Larissa Waters has admitted that while different from Adam Bandt, she's still fighting for the same values.
sbs.com.au
"Another land mine is the perennial Saudi insistence that fossil-fuel-producing countries should be compensated for lost revenue resulting from climate action." I'm hoping they don't misuse the new Belém Action Mechanism - just transition for that, a tool of delay www.eenews.net/articles/oil...
Oil kingdom and a 'high priest' stall action for 30 years
Over the last 28 years, since the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report was adopted in August 1990 in Sundsvall, Sweden, Saudi Arabia
eenews.net
With all the hand-wringing over Hanson and her "mystery" rise, it's worth remembering Nine secretly flew her to clamber all over Uluru (with disgraced chief-of-staff Ashby). Nine then labeled it a "social division" - a "culture war" that had "divided the nation"... theklaxon.com.au/ulurustitch-...
SCOOP: Hanson’s Uluru “climb” a monolithic stitch-up - The Klaxon
Channel Nine’s A Current Affair orchestrated and funded Pauline Hanson’s Uluru climb.
theklaxon.com.au
