Environmental activist Ben Pennings declares ‘massive victory’ after Adani drops its years-long legal pursuit Queensland supreme court orders Pennings, a campaigner against the Carmichael coalmine, not to seek to acquire Adani’s confidential information * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Indian mining company Adani has agreed to end its marathon legal pursuit of environmental activist Ben Pennings. Pennings declared victory on Thursday, after the Queensland supreme court signed off on orders on Wednesday, ending the five-and-a-half-year court battle. The order requires Pennings not to seek to acquire Adani’s confidential information or to ask others to do so. Continue reading...

Environmental activist Ben Pennings declares ‘massive victory’ after Adani drops its years-long legal pursuit

Smaller public service = more consultants (@ greater cost) 😡

The ceasefire that isn’t: 400 violations in 40 days Israel has violated the ceasefire in Gaza hundreds of times since October, using vague or unverified justifications to carry out strike in a recurring pattern of escalation and impunity.

ISRAEL IS A LAWLESS ENTITY.
Always has been and always will be, UNTIL IT CEASES TO EXIST.

Refaat Ibrahim
The ceasefire that isn’t: 400 violations in 40 days johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

It would never be enough 💲💲💲#greedisgood

Not sure why he would want to be part of such a disappointing cohort (trying to advance change from the inside perhaps) or why they haven't jettisoned him yet.

Israel has violated Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killed hundreds Gaza Government Media Office says Israel fully responsible for humanitarian, security repercussions from its violations.

aje.io/65ptdp

BOM reveals new website cost $96.5m, not $4.1m as first announced Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has asked the weather agency's new boss to examine how the website's cost and redesign went so wrong.

Even at the original price heads should roll. I reckon contractors drool and lick their lips when the sense a Government contract in the wind. "It's not my money so it's ok to be lavish in our spending" To upgrade a fucking website
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"Other job seekers who fail to meet their requirements are not interested in finding work, either because they have other sources of undeclared income or because they see their payments as an entitlement for which they should not have to do anything in return. For these job seekers, strong penalties are required to send a clear message that those who are unwilling to meet their mutual obligation requirements will not receive income support. Based on these findings, a new compliance system is proposed that will address the weaknesses of the current model and deliver the objectives of this review. This new framework will include: • Greater autonomy and emphasis on personal responsibility for most job seekers. • Better identification of factors impacting job seeker capability before penalties are applied. • Targeting of significantly tougher compliance penalties at job seekers who have demonstrated they are not genuine in meeting their requirements. • Greater simplicity through more consistency in the design and application of compliance rules for different types of failures Recommendation 1: Targeted Compliance Framework The new approach will be based around a targeted compliance framework which consists of two phases – a personal responsibility phase for the majority of job seekers who generally meet their requirements and an intensive compliance phase which will apply strong penalties to persistently non-compliant job seekers. The system will be bolstered by new technologies to assist job seekers in monitoring their requirements, and multiple interventions to identify when factors impacting the job seekers ability to comply or inappropriate requirements may be preventing a genuine job seeker from meeting their requirements."

NEW: I have obtained, under FOI, a secret Department report that initially recommended the Targeted Compliance Framework - aka, the unlawful "mutual obligations" scheme

It reveals that, like Robodebt, they recklessly built this thing to punish "entitled" frauds who never existed

'Time to go home': South African man who attended Neo-Nazi rally has visa cancelled The federal government has revoked the visa of a man who attended the far-right National Socialist Network protest at NSW's parliament house.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

UN post on X

Israel has fired on UN peacekeepers

OECD report shows LNP climate irrelevance, while Safeguard Mechanism among least effective emissions reduction schemes in world The report demonstrates that Australia’s safeguard mechanism remains one of the least effective programs for reducing emissions, and relies the most on carbon credits.

While everyone’s having fun laughing at the Coalition’s ‘climate policy’ Labor is munching popcorn and enjoying the complete lack of scrutiny of its failed ‘Safeguard Mechanism’.

If only tackling #climate change just required being better than the Coalition…

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You will never see this anywhere in the World but Delhi.

With rising air pollution and AQI touching 500, the Government is trying to manipulate the data by sprinkling loads of water 24x7 outside air quality monitor stations to bring down the AQI in official readings. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Wtf 😱

Life is hard. After all , it kills you. ~ Katherine Hepburn

Life

Australia could be a world leader in tackling the climate emergency My recent P&I article, “The world isn’t even trying to phase out fossil fuels”, explained why it is imperative that fossil fuels be rapidly phased out.

Climate warming

"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘮 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘭 𝘧𝘶𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘢 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦"

𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍?

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

I used to to think Wong was one of the good guys. She's a HUGE disappointment, just another career politician, not interested in helping Australians or trying to make this a better country 😡

If you’re getting paid twice the amount of the PM, I would expect you to be able to answer questions about money spent in your role.

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Shocking,
But
We
Always
Knew
It
Was
Genocide.

Israel
Is
A
Terrorist
Nation

How much money do you think a private school linked to Scientology should get from the NSW Government?

In 2022, the Athena school with only 55 students received total Government funding of over a million dollars.

PETITION Acting to protect the people and places we love

Sign the petition: PETITION adutyofcare.davidpocock.com.au/petition?rec...

We’re already in a climate emergency.

Please join with me in signing this petition.

👇🏻Van Badham, right on the money as usual

The bumper says 'rugged working man'.

But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.

Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.

Carbon credits driving car imports. What's the scam with Byd? - Michael West The world's largest electric vehicle manufacturer, China's BYD, is holding 13,000 more cars in stock in Australia than it needs for sales.

The BYD overstocking cars in Aus scam
"selling (carbon) credits to other manufacturers not meeting their targets .. they can make $7,050 per vehicle imported."
#auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
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The USA is addicted to war

Here's one.. .woof❗️

If you were looking at a newspaper (or its website) this morning and didn't see this iconic photo, it was an intentional choice to pander.

Nothing says ‘fit to lead’ like napping through your own medical endorsement. Get Grandpa Don to bed. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Do we need a watchdog's watchdog's watchdog?