Andrea Leong

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The future? In *my* lifetime?

Oh cool, a way to automate sameification

The National Party’s decision to abandon their net-zero commitment must be seen for what it is – a betrayal of Australia’s future prosperity.

Our full statement:
www.weplanetaustralia.org/post/nationa...

Tobacco companies are trying to sabotage international measures to control tobacco use, says this very forthright official statement.

It lists the industry's tactics: inserting its sympathisers into national delegations, astroturfing, misleading research etc.

Good to see this nastiness called out.

@australianlabor.bsky.social Enviro Minister Murray Watt giving off humungous 'we are all looking for the guy who did this' energy

BREAKING: The US and Saudi Arabia have succeeded getting a majority of countries to postpone the decision to adopt a carbon charge on pollution by one year.

It's not hard to understand — renewables: yes; clearing forests: no. What about clearing forests for renewables? Still no.

Gates of the school open allowing community use after hours

Basketball court being tested by eager locals!

Multiple ways through the site

Open after hours sign - explaining shared use arrangements

Well…school finishes and the gates are thrown open! Brilliant, clever work by BVN architects making an entirely permeable public ground plane, courts and playground available after school hours! Green Square Public School and City of Sydney 👏👏👏

Biodiversity Council co-chief Hugh Possingham has told The Australia, that "you can site all these renewable energy facilities by not destroying forest" but confirmed that current environmental rules were allowing native forests to be cleared for projects.

Australia trains visitors from abroad in nuclear science techniques.

August 2026 will mark 20 years of operation of the OPAL reactor, the successor to the HIFAR reactor which operated from 1958 to 2007!

ANSTO recently exported used fuel from the OPAL reactor to France, where the material will be reprocessed to extract more energy from it, providing clean electricity for society.

The last time they did this was 2018. Didn’t know about it? They must be doing their job well.

Conference slide showing Australia’s current nuclear reactor facility at Lucas Heights. Statistics are shown: workforce of 1,400; 5,000 guest refreshers per year; 17,000 (school) students visiting per year; 11,500 doses of nuclear medicine per week; and >55% of the global supply of NTD (doped) Silicon.

Australia is a nuclear nation, with a globally-respected medical and industrial facility. ANSTO is right now sharing its new food provenance technology at the World Expo in Osaka!
www.ansto.gov.au/news/innovat...

@australiannuclear.bsky.social conference kicking off! Can’t wait to read ‘Atomic Rise And Fall - The Australian Atomic Energy Commission’ by Clarence Hardy!

The book’s jacket notes that it includes a look at the unsuccessful attempt to build Australia’s first nuclear power station at Jervis Bay.

Stop the EU’s Ban on “Meaty” Words for Plant-Based Foods Sign now

If you've never accidentally bought a vegie burger, add your name to the petition to reject this nonsense law: weplanet.yourmovement.org/p/noconfusio...

Why has the EU Parliament banned the use of the words "burger" and "sausage" for foods made from plants? Seriously, can anyone tell me why?

Vegie burgers have been in the supermarkets, labelled as such, for decades. There was #NoConfusion then, or now.

(present company excepted)

Pretty weird that data centres entering the national consciousness was both necessary and sufficient for people to start talking about the need for more clean electricity.

We deadass forgot the thing we all agreed on ten years ago, that electrifying everything is step one of the energy transition.

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

Labor paid a consultancy firm for a roboreport into the unlawful robodole compliance model & it was left to the media & the public to identify errors arising from inappropriate use of generative AI in the report. If they had shame they'd be embarrassed.

#AusPol

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

🔥 IT'S BACK: To mark International Tenants’ Day, we’re launching another season of our Renter Lab citizen science project! We’re opening applications for Renter Researchers in NSW to help us track just how unbelievably hot renter homes get in the summertime.

Yes! I’m in Australia, but I signed because this could affect us here if it passes in the EU.

No meat eater can seriously claim to be confused by the label “veggie sausage” unless they also get confused between pork sausage and chicken sausage!

Stop the EU’s Ban on “Meaty” Words for Plant-Based Foods Sign now

🚨 Next week the EU votes on banning words like burger, sausage & chicken from plant-based foods.

This is nothing short of government engaging in cartel behaviour with the meat industry right as we need to transition away from animal agriculture to fix the climate crisis.

Act now!

WePlanet Australia members vote to adopt a policy of advocating for Universal Nuclear Weapon Disarmament.

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Let’s not be remembered as the generation who saw it coming and looked away. Let’s be the ones who faced the truth, and did something about it.

We’re just getting started. Join us.
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Don’t think you can slip this past me (I was up preparing for a conference tomorrow and I am always going to be an all-nighter-pulling student at heart (but also I am going to bed now))

Fuckooooooffff

I misread “muting” as “munting”. Sill made sense

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BREAKING: The governments of Canada, Australia and the UK have formally recognised the Palestinian state.

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