Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time.

This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.

First it will be used as per this article by the retailers as an excuse to raise rates and drag their feet on implementation. Then it will become a political issue raised by populists, further polarizing the energy transition. Most importantly it will not help those who most need help.

When will policymakers learn? If you don't make a decarbonization scheme progressive (helping folks more on the bottom of the income distribution), it will be more likely to fail. If wealthy households with batteries and EVs get free power while the poor see their bills go up, that is a poison pill.

" I don’t believe Sceptical Man can’t see the incoherence and moral weakness of his own position. That’s why everyone else has to be wrong. "

Victoria is spot on, as usual.

Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny The point.com.au

You cant protect nature if you wont protect native forests from chain saws & bulldozers

Great column by Virginia Young on Labors deeply flawed new ‘nature laws’…the ones that’s are so flawed the mining industry are desperately lobbying the Liberals to vote for them

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Secret email shows Anna Cody plotted move against UN women’s rights investigator
#Australia

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Australia needs to drop its obsession with large EVs if it wants to meet climate targets Australia needs regulatory and policy changes that focus on encouraging small EVs, not large ones, if it is to meet its big climate targets.

Not just large #EVs, but those bloody large utes, that get tax incentives, and burn diesel with little to no emissions controls.
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He goes: Woodside is the only pathway to fund marine research.

Claiming we wouldn't have nice things without fossil fuel companies is standard play and shows a complete lack of imagination. Marine research is funded without fossil fuel money around the world.

WA museum tells staff ‘almost all of us are guilty’ of burning fossil fuels in email defending Woodside partnership Exclusive: Climate advocates reject CEO’s claim he is ‘not qualified’ to comment on risks of gas firm’s plan to extend production to 2070

The WA Museum Director's letter to staff defending the Woodside partnership contains a grab bag of climate action delaying arguments.

He goes: we all burn fossil fuels after all.

Classic blame shifting away from companies. Blaming people for existing in a world they want to change.

Donor ‘shocked’ as national library excludes gender-critical book Alex Graham, who has given £300,000 to the NLS, urged its chief executive to reinstate The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht in its Dear Library exhibition

'Alex Graham, who has given around £300,000 to the library, said he had been “shocked and angry” to learn that The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht had been excluded from an exhibit that he personally supported with a donation of about £20,000.'
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Flo Jacobs (1941-2025)

A beautiful woman, a beautiful soul, passed peacefully at home under the skylight in the Chambers Street loft where she and her husband Ken lived & made art for some 60 years.

So Reduxx has been banned from BlueSky.
Is it because people here can't handle the truth?
I've yet to see any article of them being challenged. They factcheck everything. It certainly isn't misinformation.

This is pure censorship and authoritarian imo.

Helen Joyce speaks from the heart re the role of JK Rowling in supporting the Gender Critical movement.

Recorded on the day of the Supreme judgment on the meaning of 'sex' in legislation on @thetimes.com The Story podcast.

A must watch.

UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex - live updates In a landmark ruling, the judges say it is not a triumph for one side over another and the law still gives trans people protection against discrimination.

UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. This is a victory for common sense. The earth is not flat. This is not transphobic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

a chart showing aus way above us, eu, china etc for emissions

Not sure it's well recognised within Aus just how weirdly emissions intensive its vehicle fleet is

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It's a combination of small penises and large tax concessions.

Plus slack vehicle emission standards for so-called "commercial" vehicles.

The govt could easily change policy to encourage smaller, more efficient vehicles. But they are shit-scared of the usual vested interests and party donors.

2026 MG U9 ute revealed, coming to Australia this year with diesel power MG's first ute is an LDV in a new suit, due in Australian showrooms by the end of this year with a four-cylinder diesel ahead of a hybrid in 2026. Alex Misoyannis Alex Misoyannis 19:0004 April 2025

TOP 10 CARS IN March 2025 Rank Model Volume March 2025 Change year-on-year 1 Ford Ranger 4932 down 12.9 per cent 2 Toyota RAV4 4321 down 14.8 per cent 3 Toyota HiLux 4081 up 2.1 per cent 4 Mitsubishi Outlander 3005 up 8.7 per cent 5 Toyota Prado 2871 up 543.7 per cent 6 BYD Shark 6 2810 N/A 7 Ford Everest 2100 down 7.2 per cent 8 Isuzu D-Max 2088 down 15.3 per cent 9 MG ZS 2020 down 1.3 per cent 10 Hyundai Kona 2011 up 25.1 per cent

The absolutely bonkers push for road tanks continues in Australia. Look at this deadly, city-choking yanktank. I hate this trend so much.

Why are so many people buying these in a 'cost of living crisis'?

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I love when Singal invites people to back up their claims with evidence and is met with crickets.
All many of these folks know is that they're supposed to hate him because their tribe says so. Few can articulate any concrete reasons.
It's a sad state of affairs.

Judith Butler goes after Trump's EOs, but she get a bit messed up when dealing with sex and gender issues.

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I think you meant "demented" rather than "interesting".

Helen Webberley makes an interesting argument: biological sex testing in elite athletics is similar to Auschwitz

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Seeing as BlueSky is only showing me 'But Michael Phelps...' takes from people who disagree with this, I feel compelled to QP my support for it.

Women's sport should be for females only and it is pleasing that the tide has finally turned on this. The IOC will be the last domino to fall I imagine.

Trans girls playing girls’ sports? How about a more radical idea: Abolish the gender divide in athletics altogether. - The Boston Globe A new book argues to abolish the gender divide in athletics.

Oh FFS.
Faux 'feminists' Bekker & Mumford are trying to get rid of women's sport.
'But if those [fairness & safety] are our chief concerns, then why do we divvy up athletes by gender?'
We don't.
We divvy up by sex.
Because: human sexual dimorphism.
HTH
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Porton Down scientist forced out over gender beliefs wins legal battle The tribunal found a ‘clear hostile animus’ towards Peter Wilkins, who worked at Porton Down, expressed gender-critical views

Porton Down scientist forced out over gender beliefs wins legal battle

Incredible. A horrible story. Those at DSTL who were responsible should be sacked - on national security grounds. It’s as if they’d set out to prove Putin’s claims that we’re weak.

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Film pioneer set fire to screens and didn’t care if you hated her work Corinne Cantrill was one half of a couple whose experimental works caught the world’s attention.

In the Age today, my tribute to Corinne Cantrill:

Nathan Oseroff-Spicer should make a full list of the philosophers whose views on sex and gender he disagrees with, and then specifically explain what sort of violence each one deserves as retribution

Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man (1964)

This is not at all correct.

The right thinks everyone left of them are liberals.

The far left thinks centrists are liberals.

The chronically online left thinks everyone who voted for Kamala are liberal sellouts who love genocide.