Matt Ryan

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Oil and gas lobbyist in line for Angus Taylor’s lead role The Australian Energy Producers advisor Sam Riordan appears odds-on to head the opposition leader’s office.

"Angus Taylor is preparing his new opposition leader’s office, with oil and gas lobbyist Sam Riordan set to be made his chief of staff.

Riordan has been with the Australian Energy Producers since August last year."

Critical work from incredible scholars - especially my brilliant colleague @lizhumphrys.bsky.social

"...a collective effort to unsettle the existing conditions that regulate the toxicities of academia for everyone. We intend this article as a provocation..."

Chart showing that the value of engineering work down on oil and gas mines in the past year is more than half the amount spent on public infrastructure

If economists want to talk about crowding out, they should have a very strong look at the gas industry

Building new mines that are not needed (80% of gas is exported), and are terrible for climate change,take workers away from build roads, rail.. and homes.
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New research from The Australia Institute finds that Australia is the most expensive developed country for families to send a child to high school.

It costs Australian families $4,967 per year - almost four times the OECD average.

Read more: theaus.in/4anjEAp

Climate change made January heatwave five times more likely New analysis finds climate change made Australia’s heatwave five times more likely, added 1.6°C, and could make events biennial without rapid emissions cuts.

It's been a hot January in Australia. A fast attribution study shows that heatwaves like that of 5-10 January have been made 5x more likely by anthropogenic climate change. A "total transformation of the Australian summer" says @sarahinscience.bsky.social www.21centuryweather.org.au/climate-chan...

Public renewables and actual planning now!

If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? AI’s evangelists are promising a future of almost unimaginable prosperity. There’s good reason to be sceptical.

I'll be building on this recent @theconversation.com piece

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Sooooooo much focus on the LNP ditching net zero by 2050. Meanwhile, Labor, in plain sight, is very much tracking the same way.

The Fourth Estate…

If David Littleproud thinks OECD averages are good policy benchmarks, someone should tell him about the average tax rate.

"why would the peak mining body set net zero targets if it meant destroying their own industry? ... net zero is not about shutting up shop. It’s about ... reaching net zero through offsets"

Repacholi saying the ALP's quiet part out loud. Absolutely critical coverage by @ketanjoshi.co

Confidential Western Australian government report warns gas exports risk slowing Asia’s move to clean energy Report by consultants Deloitte undermines Labor’s public claims that WA’s gas exports help reduce emissions overseas

"Exports of Australian gas carry “substantial risks” of slowing the move to cleaner energy in Asian countries, according to a confidential report for the Western Australian government that undermines the government’s own narrative that the industry helps cut global emissions."

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

This is incredible news, and shows the incredible power of collective action. The fight against the neoliberal university (my own included) goes on, but its nice to hear some good news for a change.

Very interesting! Why do you think this is?

The Production Gap report is one of the most important publications I know of.

With each iteration we see fossil capital continuing to bet against our future.

Either we curb fossil fuel production on the supply side, or we all burn - market prices will not wind this industry down.

Rachel Reeves tells private equity bosses she plans to shut down more regulators Chancellor stopped short of saying which regulators were in government’s crosshairs

The Labour government, in its relentless quest to prove Marxists were right about the state, is about to hand more of our every day life to private equity

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Based on current policies, oil & gas demand could grow for 25 years rather than peaking this decade as expected, according to a IEA draft report

Coal consumption will peak in the 2030s, but demand in 2050 would be over 50% higher than expected, according to calculations by @javierblas.bsky.social

This is huge!

As the world rapidly heads into #climate #overshoot I've noticed a disturbing pattern in journal articles recently.

I'll summarize it quickly in this thread 🧵

ANU at a crossroads: between the social body and the iron cage - Overland literary journal The organic solidarity on display across ANU gives the institution its moral clarity and counterweight to a bureaucracy that risks becoming a case as hard as steel. In the last six months, ANU staff, ...

A gut-wrenching read from a brilliant scholar, on the crisis at ANU. It speaks to the broader sickness in our universities (including my own).

FYI @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @hannahforsyth.bsky.social @capandgown.bsky.social @joshuablackjb.bsky.social

overland.org.au/2025/08/anu-...

'Huge' leak from gas plant kept secret from public in 'national scandal' Documents reveal the scale of carbon pollution leaking from a Darwin LNG tank was like adding 8,300 new cars to the road every year. It is about to be filled again.

For decades the world's biggest above-ground tank - located 7km from Darwin- has been leaking huge quantities of LNG- possibly the equivalent of millions of tonnes of C02.

Labor policy adviser says to lower expectations on climate targets Ryan Cropp Ryan Cropp Energy and climate reporter Aug 27, 2025 – 4.32pm Save Share Gift this article A key Labor climate adviser has warned the government against setting its 2035 emissions target too high, arguing that any goal north of 60 per cent will require a major expansion of emissions reductions in the transport, industrial and agricultural sectors. Frank Jotzo, the author of a forthcoming Labor-commissioned report into a potential carbon border tax, said excessively ambitious policies being proposed by some climate groups would be impractical and easily undermined by opponents of change.

"any goal north of 60 per cent will require a major expansion of emissions reductions in the transport, industrial and agricultural sectors"

yep that is the entire point?????????????????????????????????????????????

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Record Clean Energy Additions Ease Blackout Fears in Australia Australia is at reduced risk of blackouts over the next decade thanks to a rapid buildout of renewables and batteries that will help offset the retirement of the nation’s coal fleet, according to the ...

Australia might finally be on track to have enough renewables to dodge blackouts as our coal fleet retires over the next decade, according to a new AEMO forecast.

Last year we added a record 4.4 GW of solar, wind & batteries, with more on the way.

Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

tfw your joint intellectual project makes it out of the group chat. Thanks @kurtiveson.bsky.social for your astonishing write up of our work! We're merely picking up on the threads of spatial and environmental political economy laid down by yourself and many others!

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Read more here:

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The most special part of this story is that
@kurtiveson.bsky.social
has read our work as a collective project - which is precisely what it is. I guess this is what it looks like when a joint intellectual project makes it out of the group chat, and into the world.