Channel Seven’s Spotlight digging for dirt on clean energy ignores fundamental facts and basic journalistic standards | Temperature Check Program portrayed efforts to wean Australia off fossil fuels as morally bankrupt, trashing rainforests and enslaving Australia to China * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Children sieve mud, workers drop down claustrophobic hand-cut mine shafts, men grimace while others carve out rock with chisels in bare feet to recover cobalt “for our renewable green dream”. These were the dramatic scenes from the Democratic Republic of Congo in a “special investigation” from Channel Seven’s Spotlight program, aired in prime-time on Sunday evening. Continue reading...

Channel Seven’s Spotlight digging for dirt on clean energy ignores fundamental facts and basic journalistic standards | Temperature Check

I've run out of words for how disgusted I am with the albanese government. We can spare and extra 54 billion for AUKUs, but fuck those disabled kids, eh?
#ndis
#auspol

No doubt many sectors and programs need to be re-structured for better efficiency and service for the end user - but cutting the NDIS under the backdrop of increasing defence spending by multiple of billions of dollars to placate the US - is shameful #npc #auspol

Canberra Times newspaper headline that reads Sweeping changes to NDIS will save $15 billion a year, Mark Butler says

Labor wouldn't need to make any changes to the NDIS if it implemented the proposed tax gas which is estimated to earn Australia $17 billion!

They'd even get a little bonus...

Wild attack on batteries and renewables by 7's Spotlight program falls over at the first fact check TV program looking at appalling mining practices in Congo says it is a blight on the renewables and storage industry. But it falls over at the first fact check.

TV program looking at appalling mining practices in #Congo says it is a blight on the #renewables and storage industry. But it falls over at the first fact check.

How will history regard the Albanese government? On turning a blind eye to war crimes in Iran, Gaza and Lebanon

Australia has done nothing while Israel has assassinated journalists, medics, aid workers, diplomats, foreign & spiritual leaders. Through the war crimes & illegal invasions, Albanese has done nothing even to dissuade Israel – no sanctions, no support for arrest warrants.
Is there even a red line?

Statement by UNICEF on the killing of two water truck drivers in the Gaza Strip

Statement: UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two drivers of trucks contracted by UNICEF to provide clean water to families in the Gaza Strip. www.unicef.org/press-releas...

100 bombs in 10 minutes: Mapping Lebanon's 'Black Wednesday' The Israel Defense Forces labelled it Operation Eternal Darkness. Inside Lebanon, it's now called Black Wednesday. ABC NEWS Verify has geolocated the explosions across 10 minutes of chaos.

Barbarians.

I attend stupid, maddening Job Search Provider appts as part of 'Inclusive Employment Australia'. I can affirm they're an absolute waste of millions, if not billions of $. And I know Labor knows this. Ppl who want to compare them to the Coalition but go silent on this...

On the basis of your assertion that you’re stopping people coming into the country that preach hatred. When will you start refusing visas of Israeli Zionists who want Palestine erased and illegal settlements expanded? #RNBreakfast

Jane Caro: ‘I’ve been bullied by the wittiest men in Australia’ The writer and social commentator on privilege, anxiety and how we have let down public education

I was taught to speak up about injustice. Thank you to Caitlin Cassidy and The Guardian fir taking me for a walk and allowing me to shine a light on the glaring injustice of how we fund public and private schools. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

In the space of five years, electric trucks sales in China went from near zero to over 230,000 in 2025, accounting for more than a quarter of total truck sales.

Will be in parity with deasals soon

In the middle of a fossil fuel crisis, it’s time to shout the clean energy message loud and clear | Zoe Daniel The case for renewables is clear. Every extra EV on an Australian road is litres of petrol saved, every home battery means less gas used and a more resilient electricity grid

The case for renewables is clear. Every extra EV on an Australian road is litres of petrol saved, every home battery means less gas used and a more resilient electricity grid.

Zoe Daniel speaking truth to power. #auspol @zoedaniel.bsky.social @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social

Rather than opening more oil refineries, how about we get more EVs, more charging stations, more renewables, maybe even a super fast train or two.

Let’s stop planning a future that includes fossil fuels.

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

A federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump regime from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.

A WIN FOR THE US!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics […]

The $80m water deal that has provided no water - Michael West The deal, signed off by by then-agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce, had been rejected twice and involved a company that Angus Taylor was once a director of.

Angus Taylor was just on the ABC taking about water security for farmers in the Murray/Darling. You might think it was an April Fools joke but it wasn't. Let me just remind you about this #Auspol 'watergate' scandal.
michaelwest.com.au/the-80m-wate...

You'll be outraged, right @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social? You'll condemn this, yes? I mean ... you were fine with the bombing and the sniping and the vaporising and the burning alive and the starvation and withholding medical care, but you'll draw the line at hanging hostages, right?

National Press Club platforming Israeli ambassador - knowing IDF killed 250+ journalists - for lunch chat. In the same week Israel admits doctoring Lebanese journalist image after murder. Disgraceful & dystopian yet somehow still shamelessly in full view, to be broadcast on ABC

This is the government Australia is giving billions to for mythical submarines. A cashed-up, culty, disorganised crime racket.

And I am so, so, so angry at the stupid culture wars and deliberate blocks put in place to the nation being able to have energy sovereignty. That any chance we had of transitioning the energy economy was derailed decades ago by fu*kers simping for fossil fuel. Energy security IS national security

Jewish Miriam Margolyes doesn't give two sh*ts about antisemitism accusations, she says it like it is.

"It looks like Hitler has won."

Charts showing share price change since the Iran War began: BHP: -14.6% ASX200: -7.8% FMG: -4.4% CSL: -3.1% CBA: -2.8% Woolworths: - 0.6% Santos: +17.2% Woodside: +24.0%

Just checking in again on how Woodside and Santos are going

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“We did ask One Nation, given we’re speaking about them a lot, if they’d like to come on the program…they said that the ABC is currently banned from media access.”

Tip for you James and everyone at @abcnews - stop talking about them a lot. They are irrelevant. #auspol

Maria Avdeeva @mariainkharkiv.bsky.social

A typical school day in Kyiv now includes hours underground. Russia launches drone strikes during daylight. Hundreds of thousands of children are trying to study through this every single day. They deserve to be seen.

If the Albanese Government had introduced a 25% gas export tax when it was first elected, it would have raised more than $63 billion!

Free childcare or free uni shouldn't be a pipe dream.

If big gas paid its fair share, Australians would be better off.

@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

The IDF healing trip to Melbourne this month, sponsored by Brothers For Life, is in fact not the first.

Previous trips also occurred in 2023, 2024.

Ruin your weekend? How Scott Morrison's silly EV scare campaign backfired on Australia Australia could have had three times as many EVs on the road, powered by renewable. Instead, we are pumping dirty fuel into our tanks because of a ridiculous scare campaign.

#Australia could have had three times as many #EVs on the road, powered by renewables. Instead, we are pumping dirty fuel into our tanks because of a ridiculous scare campaign.