Nigel Ball

We must make ourselves and our alliance stronger than the US, Russia, and China simultaneously. It will not be an easy task nor will it be an impossible task. The future of Democracy and the rule of law rest squarely on our shoulders and how we respond in the face of this multipolar triad of evil.

Over half the electricity produced in both the National Electricity Market and WA's Wholesale Electricity Market came from renewable electricity in the past month.

This is putting downwards pressure on wholesale prices.

If you thought #RisingTide was yesterday was BIG, wait until you see today‼️ 💥

Greenpeace activists have scaled and blocked a second coal ship during the #RisingTide People’s Blockade. Australian musicians Oli and Louis Leimbach from Lime Cordiale joined the action‼️

BREAKING‼️ Greenpeace have scaled and blocked a coal ship bound for Newcastle today for #RisingTide, deploying a banner with a message to Labor 👉🏼 “Phase Out Coal and Gas”.

www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...

5 Nannas aboard a tinnie first to break through the police line at Newcastle Harbour. Ship about to enter the harbour turns back …. we turned the ship around! #RisingTide #ClimateAction

Greens leader @larissawaters.bsky.social has the joined the #RisingTide blockade of the world's biggest coal port 💚

"We don't need anymore coal and gas"‼️

Kudos @larissawaters.bsky.social and @risingtideaus.bsky.social
It’s time we changed direction, to care for our people and our planet. 💚

Powerful speakers at #RisingTide👇🏽

Uniting Church leader Rev Faaimata Havea Hiliau, Saibai Islander and #ClimateJustice advocate Barbara Ibuai, former NSW Fire Commissioner Greg Mullins, and Greens leader Larissa Waters 💚

The transition away from coal in 2 minutes. Send this one to your mate to say #RisingTide is pro-worker!

Join us to fight for a 78% tax on coal and gas exports, to fund the future and protect the climate.

Zack Schofield of Rising Tide with the flotilla (and police) in the background. #PeoplesBlockade.

Pumping the Jam at #RisingTide 🥁🎹🎶 Join us take on the coal billionaires for #ClimateJustice this weekend at the world's biggest coal port 👇🏽

www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025

Big Oil raked in record-breaking profits. The companies that caused the climate crisis are getting rich as they fuel the fire.

@ExxonMobil: $55.7 billion
@Shell: $39.87 billion
@Chevron: $35.5 billion
@BP_plc: $27.7 billion

No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#panelsnotpipelines #cdnpoli

Meanwhile Australia opens massive new fossil fuel export projects with vastly more emissions than all the pacific states combined.

Australia is an out-of-contol petrostate, drowning its Pacific neighbours, and should not be allowed to host COP31.

“Instead of pouring more fuel on the fire with billions in fossil fuel subsidies, it’s time the government taxed the fossil fuel industry to create a National Climate Disaster Fund."

- Senior Economist @jack-thrower.bsky.social quoted in @thepointau.bsky.social
#auspol

The Govt voted against my amendments to the EPBC Act—missing a crucial opportunity to modernise our environmental laws.

My amendments involved:
* Climate financial risk disclosures
* A duty of care to future generations
* Assessment of cumulative impacts
* Fair appeal rights under enviro orders

Sussan Ley under pressure as Nationals formally scrap net zero target David Littleproud says he informed the Liberal leader days ago of the policy position his party was considering

Dumping net zero by 2050 ignores Australia’s international commitment to slash climate pollution, sells out young Australians and leaves the regional communities the Nationals claim to represent more vulnerable to fossil-fuelled extreme fires, floods, and storms.

And as you drive through Australian mining towns with half the shops that are closed you think where did all that mining money go?

Peeps say "big cars are safer"
Some not #funfacts
No, they're not

Cars kill us
99% deaths due to cars
Bigger cars kill more peeps
Big cars kill more of us not in a vehicle
~34% road deaths pedestrians & cyclists
ANCAP red rating ought not be approved for Aus roads
Like Mitsubishi Triton, other utes

New Analysis: WA drivers pay more rego than gas companies pay in royalties New Australia Institute research released today shows that royalty payments by the gas industry are negligible and expected to contribute just 1.3% to this week’s WA budget.

Read more here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-ana...

PETITION: Strong environment laws stop new coal and gas The Australian public voted for a climate majority at the last election, and we want strong environment laws that can stop new coal and gas.

Murray Watt recently approved Woodside’s North West Shelf to continue exporting gas until 2070 – a project which scientists estimate could cause hundreds of heat-related deaths this century.

✍️ Sign here:

nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...

Did you see us today in The Canberra Times?

Australians have voted for climate action – add your name to our petition urging Murray Watt to actually strengthen our environmental laws and stop new coal and gas projects!

#auspol

Hey @wired.com
Don't label me
I'm not left wing

I'm truth over noise
Data over opinion
Science over nonsense
Reason over rhetoric
Information over ignorance
Knowledge over narrative
Verification over virtue‑signalling

Speaking truth to power
Analysis, reason, and rigour on all sides, not partisan

Now this is interesting👀
#Transmission #EnergyTransition #auspol

This is what happens when you play groups off against each other, Minister Watt. Nobody is happy and you end up looking foolish.

China's NEV sales reached 1,604,000 units, surpassing the previous record of 1,596,000 units set in December 2024

NEV exports continue robust growth, surging 100% year-on-year to 222,000 units in September

BEV sales reached a record 1,058,000 units in September, surpassing one-million mark for the first time, a 36.4% Y-o-Y increase and a 16.5% rise from August

PHEV sales sliding compared to BEVs 546,000 units in September, up 6.7% Y-o-Y and 12.1% from August

China NEV market has entered structural maturity: robust internal demand while delivering growing exports
Monthly data shows, despite rapid growth, system in balance: domestic uptake, retail penetration ~58%, and export scaling achieved without oversupply stress
cnevpost.com/2025/10/14/c...

‘For every $100 of gas exported, Australia gets 43 cents’: Unions open new tax battle The federal government this week overhauled its superannuation tax reforms. Now the union movement says it should radically overhaul taxes on gas exports.

So, Australia collects 43 cents per $100 of exported gas.

Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas

And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil

This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources.

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

WA and federal governments allowing Woodside to export large amounts of WA’s domestic gas reserves Reporting today confirms large quantities of Western Australia’s domestic gas reserves are being exported via Woodside’s North West Shelf project, and the federal and Western Australian governments ar...

For more info ⤵️
australiainstitute.org.au/post/wa-and-...

Our governments are already caving in to pressure from the gas industry to export our domestic gas reserves.

90% of WA's gas is exported or used for export.

We don't have a gas shortage problem. We have a gas export problem.

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

Great work here by Wes and colleagues theconversation.com/for-the-firs...