The fastest energy change in history continues Solar and wind are being installed at a rate that is five times faster than all other new electricity sources combined. This offers compelling market-based evidence that PV and wind are now the most c...

Solar and wind are being installed at a rate that is five times faster than all other new electricity sources combined. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/13/t... #auspol

NACC finds “no corruption” – spends $140m to date The embattled National Anti-Corruption Commission has completed its first three investigations – and found zero corruption.

After 18 months of operation and a cost of $140 million to Australians, the staggeringly incompetent NACC has concluded its top 3 major corruption investigations, and guess what?

It has found no corruption.

The #NACC is a failure and a national embarrassment.

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THREAD: #NACC dishes out kid glove treatment for #Robodebt6

New FOI material shows the NACC treated the #Robodebt6 with kid gloves offering them free, independent and confidential counselling services.

The RBA wants another 85 thousand people to become unemployed before they think it’s ‘safe’ to lower interest rates…hoping for higher unemployment and flirting with recession isn’t safe. The RBA should cut interest rates now

Time to think about growing our #auspol BlueSky community

Do you have a friend, family member, colleague, neighbour who is political or a little political & would like to lean more into our democracy?

Let them know about us here on BlueSky - & ask them to join us

What do you think? We need allies

What Happens If Australia Runs Out of Fuel? | The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

Oil shock plan - unveiled under FOI by @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social - makes RE transition, decentralisation of grid, imperative

Nuclear is fantasy, political distraction
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Cracking is right.

So @grogsgamut.bsky.social is 100% right here. The problems with our housing markets are not related to access to credit.

Protestors v Carbon scammers | The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

Why do fossil fuel exporters get $14.5B in subsidies from us every year? We check out the CCS (carbon capture) scam
#CCS #auspol #risingtide #gas #gorgon #chevron
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Charts showing Australian annual CO2 emissions from 2021 out to 2030. The have been flat since 2021 and will stay so till 2028 when apparently they will fall at a perfect rate to achieve a 43% cut of 2005 levels in 2030

The latest greenhouse gas emissions figures show Australia emits more gas now than when the government was elected.

But the govt wants us to believe we are "on target" to achieve 43% cuts below 2005 levels by 2030.

Enough with the spin: we need to stop approving new coal & gas mines *now*.

Australia on track to meet 2030 43% emission’s reduction target, on latest figures Australia is on track to reach the Albanese government’s 43% emissions reduction target by 2030, according to the most recent analysis by the f Climate Change department.

What a pity we are also on track to increase coal and gas exports

Hint: it doesn’t matter where in the world Australia’s coal and gas is shipped before it is burned, it will still destroy our reef, cause our rivers to flood & destroy huge parts of our economy theconversation.com/australia-on...

Honest Government Ad | 2025 Election YouTube video by thejuicemedia

Australia, next year we get to vote on our next Federal Parliament.

This Honest Government Ad is a hilarious primer, covering why you can't "waste your vote" in Australia, donation reform, minority government and more.

@thejuicemedia.bsky.social nails it again. #auspol

A child at 10:
· Loses 4 baby teeth a year
· Knows the complete date
· Can name the months of the yr in order
·Can read & understand a paragraph of complex sentences
·Has developed skills in addition, subtraction
·Has some skills in multiplying & division,
And, in Aust, can go to prison
#RaiseTheAge

Superannuation is not for inheritance, and the benefits should not go to those who are using them only to avoid paying tax. #auspol

@grogsgamut.bsky.social
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A graphic with the caption: For our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men. There is now a 24 hr hotline, staffed by Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander men, including Elders to promote a culturally safe service. It's called Brother to Brother. The number is 1800 435 799 if you need support.

Fullas, if you need it.

1800 435 799.

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Today I introduced this in Parliament. It’s time the Big Tech giants were made to manage their algorithms to make our online experience safe, time we stopped asking users and parents to be the solution to social media harm. The operators of these platforms should step up. My Bill would achieve that.

Climate protests to continue despite 170 charged in Newcastle 'protestival' - Michael West Despite draconian anti-protest laws, Newcastle coal port was closed for four hours, 170 protestors were charged in Rising Tide protest

As govts rachet up draconian anti-protest laws, Wendy Bacon goes inside the legal fights to stage peaceful protests in the wake of record arrests at
#RisingTide Newcastle coal blockade
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"The one thing that will not be maintained in the next 10-20 years is the status quo."

Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social on the moral choices that Australia must make in the face of climate change at #climateintegrity Summit 2024 #auspol

AUKUS waste plans. The hitchhiker's guide to nuclear approvals - Michael West Stealth and key to a submarine’s success in battle. And, it seems, key tactical characteristics for the Government advancing AUKUS.

“Beware of the leopard!” Hitchhiker’s guide to #AUKUS nuclear approvals, where stealth and secrecy are used to advance the controversial program without being bothered too much by affected communities. #auspol @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
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This Parliament has not passed bills addressing the homelessness and rental crises, and other cost of living issues.

But the major parties colluded this week on legislation increasing their own public funding, and making it harder for independents to be elected.

Priorities.

Honest Government Ad | How to rig elections YouTube video by thejuicemedia

ICYMI: @thejuicemedia.bsky.social prepared this outstanding Honest Govt ad explaining the major parties' desire to protect the 2 Party system. Labor and the Coalition's collusion this week to protect the duopoly is obscene. #auspol youtu.be/N3WTlyuhDs0?...

If a Government is trying to rush a bill through Parliament, then odds are something fishy is going on.

@amyremeikis.bsky.social explains just how the donation reform changes could reinforce the two-party system, and shut out independents and new parties. #auspol

What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? YouTube video by Constitutional Clarion

For those who want a more comprehensive impartial analysis of the “sneaky, excessive and unjustified” electoral reform bill, watch Professor Anne Twomey’s informative video here. #auspol

Eight things you need to know about the Government’s plan to change Australian elections And eight ideas to improve it

Confused why Labor and the Coalition are so keen to cooperate on changing the electoral laws…didn’t know about the loopholes for donations from ‘related entities’…heres a few other things you probably didn’t know

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Australia’s climate rating slips because of plans to increase coal and gas production Australia’s plans to open new gas fields and recent approval for three massive coal mine expansions has seen it slip two places in this year’s global Climate Change Performance Index.

Australia’s plans to open new #gas fields and recent approval for three massive coal mine expansions has seen it slip two places in this year’s global Climate Change Performance Index

Eight things you need to know about the Government’s plan to change Australian elections And eight ideas to improve it

Here are 8 things you need to know about the Government's electoral reform bill, and 8 ideas to make it better, from our Director of Democracy & Accountability, Bill Browne.

@browne90.bsky.social #auspol

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