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For Electric Vehicles, Smaller Is Better The growing shift to large EVs brings new challenges. Smaller models can cut emissions, reduce costs and make cities safer and more sustainable.

For anyone wondering about the EV thing - car companies are selling enshittified tank cars

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US carrier launch

The only high-speed rail Americans support

Hard to argue

Richard Marley’s deflecting question about legality of US bombing

Mouth of Trump

Penny Wong backs Israel and US strikes on Iran as Labor group decries ‘sycophantic capitulation to militarism’ Australian foreign minister says Israel and US should explain ‘the legal basis for the attacks’ on Iran and won’t say if Pine Gap used during strikes Australia has urged Iran to stop retaliatory attacks on countries across the Middle East after the US and Israel bombed Iran, reportedly killing its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. The foreign minister, Penny Wong, when asked about the legality of the strikes on Iran, said it was up to Australia’s allies to explain “the legal basis for the attacks”. Continue reading...

Penny Wong backs Israel and US strikes on Iran as Labor group decries ‘sycophantic capitulation to militarism’

Really? We’re Fucking Doing This Again? — The Shovel The US entered yet another war in the Middle East without any clear motive, strategy, objectives, popular support, succession plan or exit arrangement, leading to claims it has no fucking idea what it...

“You have got to be fucking kidding,” the Rest of the World has remarked, as the US entered yet another war in the Middle East without any clear motive, strategy, objectives, popular support, succession plan or exit arrangement, leading to suspicions it has no fucking idea what it is doing.

WA fish under threat as seismic blasting slips through the net The Western Australian government’s move to protect vulnerable species from fishing is undermined by its failure to prevent seismic blasting to explore the region’s gas reserves.

The Western Australian government’s move to protect vulnerable species from fishing is undermined by its failure to prevent seismic blasting to explore the region’s gas reserves. satpa.pe/tJWqdFX

Is Australia independent? Not a chance. Do we need to be … yes! How?

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BREAKING: Trump hails strikes on Iran as “roaring success” as talk of Epstein files drops by over 90%

Extreme rhetoric in right-wing political circles deserves more attention The rhetoric in Australia's right-wing political circles is getting more extreme and the media should be paying more attention.

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WA subs base the only reason for AUKUS

"There are too many challenges to Australia’s acquisition, operation and maintenance of these boats for any rational person to believe they will arrive as promised. AUKUS’s main game is the base that Australia intends to give to the US at HMAS Stirling in Western Australia." satpa.pe/ozBHP34

Of course he has, he's got no spine and is incapable of seeing where this is all headed. I genuinely fear for our future.

Black Snake Killaz - A #NoDAPL Story - Unicorn Riot Film Black Snake Killaz is a feature-length documentary film, produced by Unicorn Riot, about the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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But in summary yeah naa. Toyota and Japanese fossil corps can kiss my ass!

Good work you. Well why no numbers? Fear? Too far? I live regionally in Australia and it’s hard to get number out of regional communities for things.

Really? The Subaru counterpart is 510km?

Oh there is a purpose #Epstein #distraction

Dark fucking days!

Time to fund underground groups who can cause $345m damage and some …

For those outside the US who are unfamiliar, the anti-protest crackdowns we've seen across the English speaking world are downstream from this event, and the claims made in this case are, to put it politely, questionable.

Hmm, ABC TV news reporting US threats to bomb Iran (and re-seize its oil) without mentioning oil. A straight PR piece for the exiled Pahlavi pretender to the throne abolished in 1979. No mention of the CIA coup against the democratically elected PM in 1953, installing a dictator for US/UK oil co.s

Carbon Tracker notes that Woodside, Santos, Beach, and Amplitude all assume their offshore pipelines can be left in situ: industry jargon for leaving them in the ocean. This is despite the federal regulator NOPSEMA's base case that all property is removed.

Australian oil and gas companies only disclosing 19% of their decommissioning exposure. Gangsters!

A Carbon Tax Comeback? - ABC listen Spending is outpacing revenue, and the budget gap isn’t closing. At the same time, Australia is drifting off track on its emissions targets for 2030, 2035 and 2050. The Superpower Institute has a pr...

Carbon tax

The only way which is the reason we don’t have one. It’s 2026. Bring it back baby!

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Like that time Australia launched a gas policy based on EY’s research which was commissioned By Energy Producers Australia (Alice gas industry). Awesome work as per usual team Micheal West.

YouTube video by Engineering with Rosie Is Clean Natural Gas a Myth?

Good one by Rosie.
Highlighting the clean gas lie with much focus on Santos.

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Australia’s most costly anti-climate policy hits taxpayers for $30m a day as calls mount to wind back fuel tax credits | Adam Morton The government will hand over $10.8bn this financial year under the scheme that makes it cheaper for miners and other industries to use diesel and petrol

Excellent piece in @us.theguardian.com by Adam Morton on massive fossil fuel subsidies in Australia to diesel.

“Thanks to fuel tax credits, big companies are allowed to pay significantly less to burn dirty fuels than households”

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WA population to hit 4 million by 2043 prompting housing warning Four million people are tipped to live in Western Australia by 2043 according to a new report which warns the boom could be derailed by a housing shortage.

Yeah sure thing. And from which global South country with a crashing population we we be pulling these numbers from? 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️

Guillotines

So this geothermal is more interesting now? How bad is fracking factor in next gen geothermal?