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Jon Eastgate

@joneastgate.bsky.social

Living on Yaggera and Turrbal Country. Time to ditch fossil fuels. Check out my work at https://www.climatehousing.com.au/ and my play at https://paintingfakes.blogspot.com/

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Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Smart countries learned the vital importance of mitigating vulnerability to fossil fuel dependency & planned a path to decarbonized sovereignty 👀 www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aga... Others are still sharing tired ideas that'll lock in further dependency & enrich the industry flogging it 🙄

Excerpt from Daniela Gabor and Benjamin Braun's article in Phenomenal World: 'Against Carbon Shock Therapy': Building a toolkit for decarbonized sovereignty "In China, as we have argued, a unique blend of energy security concerns and green planning laid the foundations for a big green state. As early as 2003, the US invasion of Iraq reshaped China's conception of the geopolitics of oil and caused it to push for oil import diversification away from the Middle East. Yet CCP leaders soon came to understand that regardless of origin, oil was seaborne, and therefore susceptible to blockades enforced by the US navy. As a consequence, from the early 2010s, electrification and cleantech global leadership became a national security project, pursued through the Made in China 2025 industrial policy. The petrowar against Iran has turned China's geopolitical calculus into a powerful lesson for the rest of the world: you cannot import-diversify your way out of fossil fuel dependency. Europe's shift to LNG imports from the United States, and insistence on decarbonization through derisking, looks particularly shortsighted today. The only secure way to manage an economy is to decarbonize it; the only form of sovereignty available at this moment in history is decarbonized sovereignty."
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Billions of dollars worth of investment will flow if the federal government mandates a percentage of biofuels be added to the nation's fuel supply, major investors say.

Existential Comics@existentialcomics.com · 5mo ago

In light in these events, I do think we need more gun control. Anyone off the street shouldn't be able to just walk in and buy a gun. There should be MANDATORY marksmanship lessons for all gun owners.

Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Marvellous!🎉 Bring on the tax (be ambitious!) & I hope WoodCIDE's projects go away & die Would rather have the irreplaceable Murujuga rock art culture & knowledge library, less environmental destruction, less pollution & improved chances of a liveable climate for life on earth

ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Oil and gas giant Woodside denies its business model is "weak" while arguing that paying a proposed flat tax on gas exports would kill the company's projects.

Jennifer Crawford@ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is actually appalling. As Australia has a significant Lebanese community I would expect condemnation from @albomp.bsky.social @tonyburkemp.bsky.social and Penny Wong. #Auspol.

Ann Harries@annharries.bsky.social · 6mo ago

So Israel has now killed very nearly as many Lebanese as Israelis were killed on October 7, including 100 children and there’s hardly a word of condemnation other than from Carney and Macron. Why no international outcry at the ethnic cleansing that’s taking place.

Dr Ingrid M🪁@ingridm.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“police allege the women had changed into Difficult Women t-shirts to hide their identities” ah yes that well publicised and serious charge of wearing a t-shirt to “hide your identity” from people with guns and coercive powers of the state. www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/escalat...

Escalation in Tactics, as VicPol Raid Nonviolent Zelda8 Protesters: Interview with WACA

The Zelda8 are women who staged a feminist protest at Victorian Trades Hall and raided a month later in response, which seems due to the labelling their action as antisemitic.

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Dave Lennon@davelennon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is beyond disgraceful ... the lack of coverage in the western press is at best unprofessional at worst racist and another confirmation the right's unending campaign against the UN is bearing fruit.

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Three Indonesian peacekeepers dead. Killed by Israeli bombs. Not militants. Not fighters. UN peacekeepers. The world's response? Absolute silence. If Hamas or Hezbollah killed three UN workers, Media would run it for weeks. "Barbaric terrorists" 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️

Jon Eastgate@joneastgate.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"In 2025, five Palestinian writers and 15 Jewish writers appeared. And this year we planned to include three Palestinian and 12 Jewish writers." So in shutting down Adelaide Writers' Week Australia's Zionist lobby managed to silence 12 Jewish writers. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...

Louise Adler sets the record straight on Adelaide Writers' Week

The Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) debacle might have served as a “life lesson” to politicians and lobbyists about the risks involved in interfering with the independence of arts organisations. But as w...

johnmenadue.com

Jon Eastgate@joneastgate.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So, the 'Isis Brides'. - 23 are children. They are not responsible for anything. - All 34 are Australian citizens, entitled to return. - None of them has been convicted of a crime, or even charged. The idea that we should leave them in a crappy camp forever is cruel. This is not 'social cohesion'.

Jon Eastgate@joneastgate.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Want to boost business in your local cmshopping precinct? Make it easier for people to walk or ride there.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Toronto shopping street
Dr Ingrid M🪁@ingridm.bsky.social · 7mo ago

PM: “I have nothing but contempt for these people… “ ABC: What about the children? PM: “That is the responsibility of their parents and their mothers in particular… their mothers made this decision to travel overseas against the national interest…”