Konrad Benjamin nails the root of the problem: to stop large industries from ripping us all off, politicians need to stop “going to work in the industries that they literally wrote the rules for”🔥
Rules that as Dr Denniss points out, see gas co’s “pay more in PR than PRRT”💥

Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat.
If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄
“They are playing us for fools.” 🔥
Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject. #auspol

“Token carbon emissions” 💀🙄

Trump’s Latest Meltdown Attacking the pope was only part of the president’s disturbing night on Truth Social.

One night that revealed Trump’s collapsing mental state.

He’s getting worse.

Given Bendigo’s feted ethical approach this is deeply problematic and hypocritical. AI is an ethical disaster on many levels, not least environmental 😩

Albo's tortoise Why incrementalism will never get us where we need to be

“…the stakes are infinitely higher:… eight billion people on a destabilising planet, with one group of people at the console actively driving the destruction, and another group congratulating themselves for their measured approach to the insanity.” #auspol open.substack.com/pub/tdunlop/...

The gently sloping line at the bottom is our world 252 million years ago, when temperatures increased by 8C across 60,000 years killing 90% of all species.

It is a period known as The Great Dying.

That vertical red line is the world our children live in.

ENDLESS RECORD HEAT IN AUSTRALIA

Tonight Minimum of 23.1C at St George, Queensland was the highest ever recorded in April.
Let's expect days of heat records for the rest of the week.

What the fuck are we doing here

As the obsession over whether or not you might agree or disagree that "Israel has a right to exist" has resurfaced, it's worth listening once again to Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt, tear down this ridiculous subject. Pay attention. #GazaGenocide #GreaterIsraelWar

Map of the lower 48 United States showing 0.25° GFS run from 18z on 20 March 2026. The variable is the 500 hPa geopotential height percentile rank considering ERA5. There is a record-breaking ridge across the Western U.S.

Honestly, this historic heat dome across the West is really hard to put into words for me. Temperatures over 110°F (43°C) in March, shattering all-time monthly records on multiple consecutive days, and not just by a little.

➡️ I can confirm this is human-caused climate change.

polarwx.com/models/

And also imperative from climate and therefore survival perspective that no new gas supply is introduced. We’re not buying their bullshit anymore.

But the gas industry’s peak representative body, Australian Energy Producers, said a 25% levy against its exports would come at the “worst possible time for Australia’s economy and energy security”. “Imposing higher taxes on Australian gas producers would stop investment in new gas supply, leading to gas shortfalls, higher energy prices, and the closure of Australian industries that rely on reliable and affordable gas,” AEP’s chief executive officer, Samantha McCulloch, said.

Chart showing in 2023-24 9,951PJ of gas was exported or used in LNG plants to convert gas to LNG 1,034PJ was used in Australia

The Gas industry now saying a 25% export tax would "stop investment in new gas supply, leading to gas shortfalls"

Bullshit.

Utter bullshit.

83% of Australia's gas is exported.

THERE IS NO SHORTAGE

Cyclone Woodside seems a lot more accurate than Narelle #auspol

Charts showing that since 26 Feb Santos' share price has gone up 18.3%, Woodside up 16.5% while the ASX200 is down 7.3%

Just checking in on how Santos and Woodside are doing...

Yeah I think we can tax gas exports...
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

The Albanese government needs to stop being afraid of the gas industry before the current fuel crisis goes to waste | Greg Jericho A failure to seize the moment amid soaring energy prices and act in the May budget could make voters turn their anger toward the federal government

My column on Albanese needing to tax gas exports.
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

If the NDIS is ‘runaway spending’, what do we call $16 billion in fossil fuel subsidies? New research shows fossil fuel subsidies will reach $16.3 billion in 2025–26, rising faster than the NDIS. Handouts to mining giants are growing faster than support for Australians with disability.

Just a reminder - while NDIS subsidies are allegedly 'unsustainable' fossil fuel subsidies grew by 9.6% in the last year to $16.3bn. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

​​​​Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock​ – CCC  - Climate Change Committee The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitu...

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one.
#NoBrainer
www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds Australia Institute data finds state and federal subsidies for coal, gas and oil products increased 10% in past year, growing at a faster pace than funding to NDIS

#Auspol
🇦🇺 federal & state government subsidies that encourage fossil fuel use & help drive the #climate crisis will reach $16.3bn this year‼️

🇦🇺 government subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute‼️

Fossil fuel get subsidies are higher than #NDIS‼️

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

During an illegal war, Albanese and Wong treat us like idiots Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong obsessively talk about international law, but go silent when Israel and the US breach it. It's part of a broader picture of refusal to be honest with Australians.

“The rights of citizens and taxpayers to know about what’s being done in their name or with their money come a very distant second to what Albanese and his cronies think is in their political interests.” #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/05/i...

Australian media isn’t covering this but what’s happening in Cuba is dreadful. Trump signed an executive order cutting off Cuba’s last oil supply. Ten million people are paying with their lives. Sewage systems are failing, food is rationed, it’s getting worse.

In coal country this battery didn't stand a chance A community battery project three years in the making, run by a local not-for-profit and backed by the council, was killed after a spark of misinformation about its fire risk was ignited.

The far right killing our #energy stability, #climate & affordable energy with #misinformation & scare campaigns…here it is! 1/3 #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Epstein, the Pelicot case and the ISIS brides are the same story in different fonts This isn't a 'not all men' piece. That’s a separate genre, usually published in the comments section beneath a news story about murdered women, by a man named 'Dave' whose profile picture is a flag.

“Here’s the bleak connective tissue between Epstein, Pelicot, and the Syria camps: the world is saturated with systems where men believe they are entitled to women’s bodies, and where institutions quietly agree.” #auspol

www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/27/i...

One word unravels Albanese's week The prime minister was this week evacuated from the Lodge over a bomb threat and later got stuck in a tit-for-tat with a former Australian of the Year.

Very true - but that’s what happens when you ain’t doing anything else worth talking about.
Labor’s complete lack of meaningful activity is why we spend every week talking about immigration, Hanson and whatever dumb shit Albanese also said to Karl Stefanovic

Carte blanche for data centres; f all for affordable housing.
Skynet ('𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳') will be thrilled ... 👀
#auspol

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When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

I found out just the other day that you can extend them for a couple of years, either on app or in person. Still dumb though