Simone van Hattem

This Sunday, Kinjarling Albany 10am (ignore other comms that say 11!). Then film fundraiser in Denmark Kwoorabup from 4pm with dinner.

Doing a terrible job using Bluesky! But here’s something that’s come out of action for Palestine in Albany/Kinjarling. This Wednesday!

Dentist. Surveyor. Driver. Nazi. Unmasked extremists in everyday jobs Nazi supporters are now openly marching through city streets as the group attempts to enter mainstream political discourse.

Here is a link to the article in The Age unpaywalled: web.archive.org/web/20250905...

Neo-Nazis have occupied the steps of Victoria’s parliament twice in two years. Are protest laws to blame? Calls for tougher ‘move-on’ laws overlook the fact that police already have considerable powers in Victoria

'As neo-Nazis occupied the steps of Victoria’s parliament for the second time in as many years, many are asking the question: how has this happened again – and what can be done to prevent it?'

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sorry I keep forgetting about BlueSky 😬 Anyway, hope you can make it on evening of the 24th for fundraiser at Dune. I think flyer nearly done.

Hello at 3am because I went to sleep around 9..!

I can’t say there’s a lot happening yet (planning house gig fundraisers and Oct 12 rally for Palestine), but Albany Pride also keeps some of us busy and the local council elections are going to be… interesting…

Crew of Madleen

Entire Madleen crew representing 7 countries has gone dark and presumed kidnapped by Israel
Greta Thunberg
Rima Hassan
Yasemin Acar
Baptiste Andre
Thiago Avila
Omar Faiad
Pascal Maurieras
Yanis Mhamdi
Suayb Ordu
Sergio Toribio
Marco van Rennes
Reva Viard

Climate change and the government's 'tactical fatalism' Last week, the climate analyst Ketan Joshi wrote a fiery article in Crikey that touched on many of these issues. It's really worth reading. Mr Joshi said the Albanese government's recent controversial decision to allow Woodside's North West Shelf gas project to continue operating until 2070 was a major blow to the climate movement and signified something sinister. He argued Labor was not a climate denier, it was something "far worse". UN asks Australia to do more to protect rock art Photo shows Murujuga Rock Art Monitoring Program 2023-11-13 08:11:00Murujuga Rock Art Monitoring Program 2023-11-13 08:11:00 The UN is proposing to knock back Australia's bid to add the Murujuga Cultural Area to the World Heritage list, instead asking the federal government to address concerns about emissions degrading the ancient Aboriginal rock carvings near Karratha in WA's north. He said if anyone in 2025 could work to worsen fossil fuel reliance in full acceptance of the consequences, without any willingness to work to prevent them, they were "far scarier" than climate deniers. "There isn't a great name for this, but we can call it "tactical fatalism": the intentional, weaponised insistence that a worse future is the only future (from those who benefit the most from whatever makes it bad)," he wrote. "The climate movement is ill-equipped to deal with a threat that looks like this. The easy binary of deniers vs believers died last decade. Any fantasy we had of a global moral pact of good intentions is dead.

"This decade we are realising how much damage and death can be caused openly, without any shame. Genocidal countries know it, and the fossil fuel industry knows it, too. "A half-decade of wars, invasions, energy crises and a really nasty pandemic haven't been easy on our movement, and the tactical fatalist predators are circling." How do these sad political developments fit with the principles of "liberalism," where the right to speak freely, to tell the truth, and protest are supposed to be sacrosanct? In The Social Contract, Rousseau said when privileged groups can act with impunity we exist in a world where might is right. "And as the strongest is always right, the only problem is how to become the strongest," he wrote. Is that really the world we want to live in? Is that what younger Australians voted for?

I thought this was a pretty nice reference to my recent @crikey.com.au piece, in the ABC

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/02/n...

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Peter Dutton for Dickson

Let’s rid ourselves of this jerk from Australian politics once and for all!

Another cracking explainer from @thejuicemedia.bsky.social youtu.be/euE8eZTyQQg

#AusVotes25

Dutton:
— I don’t know about climate change.
— I’m not a scientist..
— I don’t know Donald Trump

#abcleadersdebate

Holy Shit - we are in 2025 and the Liberal leader STILL can't say the worsening weather we are seeing is because of climate change. "I am not a scientist"
Fuck me.

Gas exports have tripled east coast wholesale gas and electricity prices.

When you get your next energy bill, blame the gas industry.

Our billboard in Brisbane ⤵️ #auspol

'PAULINE HANSON PLEDGES TO RECOGNISE JERUSALEM Last night during [at] an event with the Australian Jewish Association, One Nation Leader, Senator Pauline Hanson pledged to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel & support moving the Australian embassy there. This position is amongst the most supportive of any political party in Australia.'

#auspol

~30 years ago, Hanson was denounced by local Jewish community groups for her racism, xenophobia & the incorporation of antisemitic followers into her party; in 2025, the batshit AJA (a registered charity) is happy to jump into bed with her.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Rewilding for Biodiversity with Costa Georgiadis The Blindboy Podcast · Episode

New podcast. Live from Sydney, I chat with Costa Georgiadis, a landscape architect and environmental educator, about biodiversity and rewilding. Absolutely lovely fella, whose enthusiasm is infectious open.spotify.com/episode/0MG7...

Rewilding for Biodiversity with Costa Georgiadis Podcast Episode · The Blindboy Podcast · 08/04/2025 · 1h 57m

So great to hear this week’s podcast with gardener and legend Costa Geordiadis from Gadigal country as well!
Great episode. Apple podcast link here but search Blindboy on other podcast apps! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

So great to be in the front row (apparently I booked the tickets yet did not remember doing that 😆 ) for @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social’s talk in Boorloo with Bardi Professor Pat Dudgeon, talking about decolonising psychology. Legends 💜

The Advertiser · Follow roopenSsdtc31 0 m 1 a 0 u d s 7 t a c Y h y 6l4gt37546 : 10 t f e 5 e fia5t 5 g9 0 1 r 7 · Community sport clubs in Port Augusta are on the brink of collapse, locals say, unless the proposed construction of a nuclear power station goes ahead. 📍 Read more: https://bit.ly/4i2VaNW

This is a right-wing media outlet using the false promise of nuclear power in a predatory, cynical and deeply cruel way to exploit the broad systemic failure to enact a just transition away from fossil fuels.

Just utterly messed up

HT @simonahac.bsky.social

Lovely start to @albanypride.bsky.social with Aunty Vern welcoming us to Minang country, and then the Huxleys last night at the town hall..!!

Crossposting to here from AlbanyPride, Albany/Kinjarling, Western Australia yesterday.
Sign the petition: transjustice.org.au/ban/
#protecttranskids #protecttranslives

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

Today in Albany Kinjarling

Murujuga's rock art is over 40,000 years old, and contains what could be the very first depiction of a human face in history.

And it's currently under threat of destruction from Woodside's North West Shelf gas export terminal expansion.

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

The euphemisation of far right politics over decades has led to the inability to call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute and fascist politics fascism

The use of populism, Euroscepticism, nationalism/nativism have all played a role in diluting and minimising the threat often based on the FR's own wishes
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The last days of my holiday were spent checking on fauna at the Balijup Wildlife Sanctuary near Tenterden Great Southern WA last weekend 💜 Quenda, possums, Phascogale, lizards, birds, bats, Christmas spiders and more!

It is really wild how the fossil fuel industry in Aus has managed to spread the false perception that the Aus economy relies on fossil fuel sector jobs + cash

www.industry.gov.au/publications...

australiainstitute.org.au/report/clima...

WA State Election is on 8 March and we’re starting to prep our scorecard. We’ve also got a letter about to go out to every household!

Currently in full swing with the campaign to get a ban on fracking in the Kimberley. We’ve focussed on Fremantle where through doorknocking we’ve found 92% of voters want a ban, and there are so far two candidates who support that. Time for MP Simone McGurk and Premier Cook to get on board! ⚠️

Oh hai!
Keen to get more people over to Mastodon (let me know if you need help, it’s a little confusing to start with, with the different servers). I’m @simone@aus.social there. You can follow people on different servers.