United Nations sends warning to Chevron after plumes of methane found over its Gorgon project
UN sends warning as satellite detects greenhouse gas plumes over Gorgon plant
Satellite monitoring has detected huge plumes of methane above one of Australia's largest gas complexes, triggering a UN alert and inquiries by state authorities.
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Not taxing the gas isn't working for Australins, so why don't we just do it already #TaxTheGas #auspol
Ms Haines handed Albanese an annotated copy of the Forgotten Health Spend: A Report on the Expenditure Deficit in Rural Australia 2026 last Wednesday to highlight a growing $2.7 billion expenditure gap between metropolitan and regional areas www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
Helen Haines pressed PM on regional health days before car attack
Independent MP Helen Haines met with Anthony Albanese to lobby for regional health funding just five days before being critically injured in a targeted car attack.
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Yep. Vouchers are another neo liberal disaster, pretending to be fair but actually locking poorer families out. As we have done in this country.
Geoff Hammond@geoffhammond.bsky.social · yesterday>USD1,000,000,000! @janecaro.bsky.social
I'm a bit annoyed that those 3 things don't include * Gas Tax * Windfall Tax * Adding GST to private education fees & private health insurance and then we could also stop funding private schools, AUKUS and fuel subsidies Either way, Albo needs to pull his finger out #auspol
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 17h agoThree things the Albanese government could do right now to make people feel better off
Helen Haines lobbied Anthony Albanese on $9b rural health gap days before critical attack
Helen Haines pressed PM on regional health days before car attack
Independent MP Helen Haines met with Anthony Albanese to lobby for regional health funding just five days before being critically injured in a targeted car attack.
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Which is the absolute last thing we need. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...
Australia’s US alliance is tying us to a dangerous politics of religious nationalism
Religious nationalism is increasingly entangled with political and military power in the United States and elsewhere. Australia should ask what that means for an alliance on which it continues to rely...
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National Geographic names Melbourne as the best place in the entire solar system. One for the cookers to chew on. www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/best-...
Melbourne Travel Guide for 2027
From Downtown to the beloved Great Ocean Road, the Australian city is more beautiful and easier to get around than ever before.
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Requiring everybody to use their full real name & location in all public comments would make a lot of women way more unsafe. So many men-commentators on 'society' don't consider that women often don't have the freedoms they take for granted. www.smh.com.au/national/i-b...
We’ve been asked to ‘turn down the temperature’. Here’s how we start
It has become terribly clear that online anonymity helps many write or say things they’d never record if they knew they could be identified.
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Trump ordered to sit for deposition in his $14bn BBC lawsuit
Trump ordered to sit for deposition in his $14bn BBC lawsuit
The US president is suing the British broadcaster, alleging it defamed him by splicing together two pieces of his speech made to supporters before they stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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It was the voters' fault - is the revenge going to come to her constituents? It doesn't sound good #springst
Twitter Exile@twitter-exile.bsky.social · yesterday#JessWilson 's political revenge story 24 years in the making At 12 she watched voters crush her father's career. On November 28, Wilson could avenge him and make history. #AUSPOL #SpringSt #VicVotes #PutOneNationLast #Victoria #VoteGreens #VictorianElection2026 #VictoriaVotes2026 #PutLNPLast
This is either completely dishonest or completely clueless from the PM and is disgraceful. The page doing the rounds clearly attacks Haines and implies she has double standards on porkbarrelling and may have hidden conflicts of interest.
I can't imagine anyone else charged with murdering multiple people, being able to use the public airwaves as his platform, before the trial. Why isn't this contempt?
The difference is so stark and shocking. I cannot fathom how so many people and politicians are fine with public schools being underfunded. The money is there- it's just going to schools who don't need it while punishing those who do. Fucken boils my piss every single day
"What is the book that will be written on #AnthonyAlbanese 's prime ministership?" #FranKelly, host of The #RadioNational Hour, recently put this question to veteran political journalist #KerryO'Brien. The former 7.30 host's response was characteristically blunt. #AUSPOL #Neoliberalism #Albo
Please join us in showing support for Helen, the Haines family, her staff, and the community of Indi by lighting a candle tomorrow night. 🧡
How do we actually turn down the temperature? How about hold MP Angie Bell to account for calling MP Anne Aly to be publicly stoned. She said this in Parliament. If our elected leaders are threatening violence then this is who we are www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
How do we actually turn down the temperature in political debate?
Politicians on all sides of politics are doing some self-reflecting after the attack on federal MP Helen Haines. But answers to rising political violence are not easy to find.
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Victoria's public schools should be fully funded RIGHT NOW not in 2031 Both state and federal governments are letting us down. This is not to say the coalition or One Nation will do any better If a GAS TAX gets us there NOW then let's do it!! NOW. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
Victoria’s long-awaited public school deal comes with a catch
A long-called-for agreement to meet the state’s Gonski requirements has been inked, while almost $140 million in additional funding has been carved out for integrity agencies.
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I take it that the owner of a private company can be tried for treason and kicked out of the country?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoAmbassador Whitaker on Starlink: "They are a private company. Obviously they have terms of use that are applied to all of their customers, including the Ukrainians. I think it is more of a dispute along those lines than anybody in this admin trying to change how Starshield or Starlink is used."
The 20 richest Australians hold more wealth than the bottom three million households Sir, I have a question - are homeless people even counted as "households" or are they BELOW the bottom rung?
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d agoWorking Adelaide mother who lived in car calls for more homelessness support
Those AUKUS subs come with more strings attached than just the hundreds of billions of dollars we are already spending on them. Trump will never give them to us and he seems to like China more anyway #auspol
Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 2d agoNATO allies, who then transfer it to Ukraine. And by the way, the US is currently withholding lifesaving air defense missiles that our allies have already paid for!
Elon Musk's engineers are always cheering on the toxic shit being dumped into the ocean. AGAIN. SpaceX doesn't have to clean this up, as it destroys our precious wildlife. And it's all pointless and meaningless.
That billionaire should be investigated, arrested, and imprisoned. And then all his money and assets should be seized and distributed to everyone he has harmed.
