Simon Heagney

We don't need nuclear power - the path to cheaper electricity is renewables The last thing Australia energy market needs is nuclear power. The data is clear - more renewables will lead to cheaper electricity.

Saying it again. Nuclear is the most expensive form of energy we could have. Those pushing the conversation on it, are using it to distract from the rollout of the cheapest, cleanest energy form: renewables. #auspol

There is no such thing as a safe seat.

Demand politicians earn your vote.

Don't accept mediocrity.

Excuses about "costs" or "need to bring the public with us" are lies.

Governments have power, and budgets are about choices & priorities.

If it's a priority, it is always affordable.

Why can’t they just use the geotag?

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A foreign country charging us to see our Head of State.

Has anyone read a “Margaret Court snubbed at Australian Open.” story yet?

Surely someone’s written it by now.
@tennisaustralia.bsky.social

Many Australian users on Threads WANT to move to BlueSky (especially today!) but lament lack of Australian content.
Australian Bluesky don't just LIKE posts, repost and quote for more visibility with your followers and boost Australian issues and posts.

Start with this one!!

Gas giant Santos fined $10,000 for 25,000-litre oil spill off Pilbara coast The energy giant has pleaded guilty to causing an oil spill in 2022, that leaked 25,000 litres of oil off WA's north-west coast. Santos will pay a $10,000 fine and $9,700 in court costs for failing to...

Accused by a whistleblower of covering up an oil spill that killed dolphins and sea snakes, Santos get fined just $10k 🤯

Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

A screenshot from the Daily Mail from 31 December 2022 with the headline ‘ABC slammed for ‘woke’ coverage of Sydney’s 9pm New Year’s Eve fireworks and accused of ‘excluding the majority of viewers’: ‘what an absolute disgrace’

A screenshot from the Daily Mail 31 December 2023 with the headline ‘ABC is slammed for making New Year’s Eve 9pm show all about ‘Invasion Day’ with ‘woke’ Aboriginal rappers - as disappointed parents ask: ‘where’s the Bluey fireworks for kids’

A screen shot from the Daily Mail December 31, 2024 with the headline ‘Furious viewers slam ABC’s New Year’s Eve coverage as ‘woke garbage’: taxpayer load of shit

Every journalist working the summer has to scrap around for content. But running the same faux outrage story three years in a row seems ridiculous even for the Daily Mail

Musk would never insult his vice president like that.

Solar power IS nuclear power. It’s just the reactor is at a very, very safe distance.

The only policy the Coalition has with any clear detail and commitment is that Peter Dutton wouldn’t stand in front of Indigenous flags.

A joke of a party.

Do the folks who want to tear up bike lanes not understand that if the cyclists are not in the bike lanes they are in the lanes with the cars? In most cases in their own cars? Which means they are now (noisy, polluting) traffic? More car lanes just means more cars.

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Misinformation Laws Not Necessary, Says Meth Addict Peter Dutton — The Shovel Speaking from a prison cell in Brisbane, Mr Dutton – a former sex worker and director of adult films – said the laws were not necessary and that regulators should not be the arbiters of truth.

Misinformation Laws Not Necessary, Says Meth Addict Peter Dutton

The pedestrian core of Ljubljana. Two women walking in the street. Others in the sidewalk area. Parked bikes in the foreground.

Advisors told Ljubljana’s mayor that pedestrianizing downtown would be political suicide. Eighteen years later, he’s still mayor.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.

Photo of Vienna street transformed for people

This Vienna street isn’t “closed” because cars have been removed. It has successfully been “opened” to everything else, to a diverse and invigorated civic life, because cars have been replaced by a multitude of wonderful things.

Language matters.

HT @dmoser.bsky.social for pic #OpenStreets #Vienna

Funny that Tony Abbott hasn't made a comment about Alan Jones yet. It's not like Tony's shy. In the past few months the media have happily reported his views on:
- climate change
- wokeness
- Trump
- Gaza / Israel
- Rudd
- Qantas
- Oz history
- migration
- Islam
- AUKUS
- a republic
- Covid

Cartoon of additional car lane just leading to the same congestion with more cars stuck in it.

If you’re REALLY trying to “solve” traffic congestion, then road widenings and more car lanes are expensive exercises in futility — unless of course your REAL goal is even more people driving more often and longer in the same or worse congestion, fuelled by a lot more suburban sprawl. #induceddemand

‘There is no “trans argument”. There is no “trans debate”.

There are simply trans people, the people who support them, and the people who participate, either actively or passively, in their oppression.’

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'Settings > Moderation > Muted Words and tags' maybe?

This via a book person I know, Christine Farmer 👇

Even succulent chinese meals?!?!

HERE IT IS! My 1st Urbanism & City-Building Starter Pack. I’ll keep adding to it as more city champions arrive here on Bluesky & I discover more of you. Please share this far & wide to support and grow our urbanism community here. Our cities need all the help they can get! go.bsky.app/G7isZfk

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Thanks Weez! I know he's a busy man - I'm just impatient. I'm sure he'll be joining the fun soon 🙂