ACT politics is criminally underrated as a source of drama. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/932482...

Mark Parton denies texting sex worker 'f--- my job is boring' in committee hearing

Opposition Leader says complaint is 'false, malicious ... attempt to smear him'.

canberratimes.com.au

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.

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Long-standing Victorian energy and climate minister, Lily D'Ambrosio, exits politics following this week's change of Premier. D'Ambrosio had been energy and climate minister since 2014!

I work at the Australian Government and if you did not receive the AusAlert message, unfortunately we have decided that you will be sacrificed in an emergency. May the odds be ever in your favour. This message is authorised by the Australian Government.

Following the Sixers for the last 15 years or so has provided more drama, more improbable plot twists, than any TV soap. They never jump the shark.

Pablo Torre@pablo.show · 2w ago

holy crap

Shams Charania Tweets@shamsbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING: LeBron James is signing with the Philadelphia 76ers on a two-year, $8 million deal with a player option, Klutch Sports Group and Klutch CEO and Game Over show host Rich Paul tells ESPN.

It took them long enough, the scheme has been effectively dead for several years already.

Great news for Australian energy and climate journalism, with Peter Hannam joining RenewEconomy.

Big news in ACT politics. This is the heir apparent to Andrew Barr resigning from cabinet over a corruption scandal that involved her former chief of staff (who happened to go to my high school, lol). www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Breaking: ACT Education Minister Yvette Berry resigns from cabinet

ACT Education Minister Yvette Berry resigns after the Integrity Commission made "serious corrupt conduct" findings against two senior public servants in her portfolio.

abc.net.au

Woodside Energy fails in court bid to force activists to hand over stink-bomb plans www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Breaking: Woodside fails in court to force activists to hand over stink-bomb plans

Energy giant Woodside fails in its Supreme Court bid to force climate activists to hand over documents about the planning of a stink-bomb protest which prompted the evacuation of its Perth headquarter...

abc.net.au

Here Comes the Sun?

Climate Integrity has a great analysis comparing diesel subsidies paid to big miners to the costs of the Safeguard Mechanism. It shows miners receiving vastly more in diesel (fossil fuel) subsidies than it costs them to comply with the Safeguard Mechanism. climateintegrity.org.au/latest/confl...

Two completely contradictory reports of today's CSIRO GenCost report. Guess which take we will probably hear ad nauseam for the foreseeable future...

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Sam Neill's Shocked Reaction After Removing Sunglasses

ALT: Sam Neill's Shocked Reaction After Removing Sunglasses

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Potentially useful resource for people working on climate in Australia and the broader Pacific region: The WMO has recently published its latest 'State of the Climate for the South West Pacific Region' - lots of updated science and explainers. wmo.int/resources/pu...

This police holding cell (wtf) at an indoor playground for toddlers we visited in Chatswood today, felt like looking at piece of AI slop in real life. Why tf was there a jail, and wtf does contrubuion mean?

This could be the absolutely peak of British politics. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Betting odds slashed on Count Binface to beat Farage in Clacton by-election

With the main parties refusing to run in Nigel Farage’s ‘fake’ by-election, the alternative candidate who promised to have people who play loud music on public transport to be conscripted, is picking ...

independent.co.uk

At some point, we're going to have to reconcile with the fact that there's no real regulation of corporate consulting - and that 90% of corporate consulting work is finessing power point slides.

I need Belgium to score at least seven goals.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump on USA-Belgium: "If they beat us, they can be really proud. The other way, if they beat us, we'll say -- I say it was rigged, just like the election was rigged in 2020, but I won't get into that."

shocked SHOCKED i tell you, that FIFA could be involved in corrupt conduct.

'The NT government sat on a warning in 2024 by experts from the Territory’s largest hospital that LNG facilities around Darwin were producing toxic pollution linked to fatal diseases that put “thousands” of the city’s most vulnerable residents at risk.' www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/nt-go...

The NYTimes Cooking app really is a window into another world.

Turns out politicians can actually just do good things when they’re in power.

Great piece and continuing coverage of Climate Integrity’s breakdown of the problematic modelling Deloitte produced for Woodside’s Browse project. “Garbage in, garbage out.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/busines...

truly a cursed timeline if this is the top story of the day...

This is real Christian Porter "embarrasing backdown by the ABC" territory for the United States. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

A Look at the Text of the Agreement Between the United States and Iran

nytimes.com

"After Only 6 Months Under Socialist Rule, New Yorkers Say This Is The Best Year Of Their Lives" www.betootaadvocate.com/after-only-6...

After Only 6 Months Under Socialist Rule, New Yorkers Say This Is The Best Year Of Their Lives

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT For the first time since 1973, the New York Knickerbockers are NBA champions -after a 94-90 win over the San Antonio Spurs in a Game 5 thriller! This marks the begi...

betootaadvocate.com

not now el nino www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

El Niño declared by BOM, and it could become the strongest on record

El Niño is a state which can linger for up to 12 months and disrupt weather patterns across the globe, with Australia especially prone.

abc.net.au

Big consultancies might profess commitments to net zero, but they are core to the fossil fuel propaganda playbook tempestsandterawatts.substack.com/p/big-consul...

Big consultancies might profess commitments to net zero, but they are core to the fossil fuel propaganda playbook

Woodside commissioned 'economic analysis' from Deloitte to help sell the Browse gas project. Deloitte delivered a marketing exercise that buried Browse's enormous climate harms.

tempestsandterawatts.substack.com