Meri Fatin

Every day more transphobic trash spewing from the bin fire of the UK. Please never let Australia slide down this slope

Oh cool! I love that the concept behind @mlip.bsky.social, Steefan Contractor (are they here?) and @jamesgoldie.dev's isithotrightnow.com is going global.

It's such a brilliant idea and so well executed.

A screenshot of a headline that reads Coast guard vet lured her accused rapist to the woods executed him and then went to get a tattoo by David Harris May 27th 2025 443 p.m. pictured below is a split screen of the accused and the murdered side by side. On the left the accused is a woman with dark hair blunt bangs and a neck tattoo. On the right is a white man with glasses with a leather jacket and a hood on.

It's possible she may be guilty of this crime, but it's unreasonable for her to pay too high a price for 20 seconds of action. Think of her future! Girls will be girls.

Protect Murujuga Rock Art: Sign the Petition One of Australia and the world’s most important artworks is being destroyed by acid gas pollution. The Murujuga rock art on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia is a cultural treasure – and more...

Can the newly re-elected Government actually step up to this moment? Sign the @australiainstitute.org.au's petition to help safeguard Murujuga’s legacy for all generations. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/save_the_roc...

YouTube video by Ketan Joshi Why we need to be harder on centrist governments, on climate and energy

A short monologue from me, on why we have really badly failed to hold centre / centre-right governments to account on climate, out of fear of angering them or losing privliged access.

With some numbers on Labor's climate record, and thoughts on the feedback loop created when we mute criticism

updating my data and finding out that Australia just had its highest ever quarter of thermal coal exports in its history ASMR HEADPHONES ON

"The grid was under pressure because of coal, not because of renewables."
"Failure of unreliable coal highlights the pressing need for reliable, clean & cheap renewable power."

Important piece from Matt Kean, Chair of the Climate Change Authority. 👏

"It doesn't matter whether people believe in #climate change or not.

What matters is insurance companies know that their payouts have gone through the roof & the insurance companies are going to increase people's premiums.

That's just the way it works."

- @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

SIGN NOW: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT! Sign the petition: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!

Let’s sign this.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...

When will Australia stop approving new fossil fuel projects?

Pacific Elders have penned an open letter to our Prime Minister and Opposition Leader in the Canberra Times.

"Australia’s fossil fuel project approvals undermine the survival & security of Pacific Island communities." #auspol

Gorgon carbon capture and storage project: The failure of the world’s largest CCS facility After decades of abject failure, these days even the most enthusiastic proponent of carbon capture and storage can at best mount a muted…

Gorgon CCS is the world's largest pure carbon capture and storage operation. Since 2019, it has been weakly sputtering away out on Barrow Island at Australia's highest emitting industrial facility.

You may have heard it's a failure. Do you know why it's a failure?

A long article and accompanying 🧵

WA carries on celebrating its best and brightest climate wreckers as the AICD invites the Woodside CEO to deliver an exclusive keynote at its upcoming awards event in August www.aicd.com.au/events/all-e...

Pg 11 of today's edition of the Oz. Half page of #climatedenial from so-called The Climate Study Group. Who are they? Seven blokes who save up their money and take out half page ads in the national paper every now and then because they feel so entitled to be heard. www.desmog.com/climate-stud...

The carbon offset industry needs to be abolished - SOMO SOMO joins the many voices demanding an end to carbon offsets and a greater focus on real climate action and emissions reductions.

A Dutch corporate accountability group calls for the abolition of carbon offsetting.

It's tough to argue with this. Even the argument about the cash it provides to climate projects in the Global South is dodgy: because what happens when the bubble bursts?

www.somo.nl/the-carbon-o...

Very hard to listen to him talking to Mary Robinson ( and Sophie Lambin) with such disrespect.

Cop28 president refuses to commit to phasing out fossil fuels

Sultan Al Jaber's comments in this video are pretty shocking. He is fundamentally in actual, real denial of the need to fully eliminate fossil fuels from society and all the science that confirms it.

#COP28

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtZk...

Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

"I am telling you I am the man in charge"

COP28 President and ADNOC oil boss Sultan Al Jaber at a "She Changes Climate" event that focuses on women in climate action.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Finally got a pic 😎

Inside the COP28 talks In light of Australia’s bid to host the 2026 COP, extra pressure will fall on Chris Bowen and his delegation at this year’s conference to prove the nation’s commitment to mitigating climate chan...

"The growing awareness that two-thirds of all fossil fuels must stay in the ground to keep global warming to 2 degrees – now acknowledged in an internal briefing for the Australian delegate to COP28 – will add pressure on the government to step up to its commitments."

Me in The Saturday Paper today

And because y'all love to know secrets, here is the relevant section of the brief.

(H/T to @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social who helped guide my fishing expedition to learn what the hell Australia was talking about at the GST Technical Dialogue closing plenary in Bonn).

Woodside’s dangerous seismic blasting granted shock approval

Terrible news snuck through on a Friday night
"A new seismic blasting approval was granted by the offshore regulator NOPSEMA yesterday and allows Woodside to start as early as today. 
Woodside plans to seismic blast for up to 80 days off the Pilbara coast to assess gas reserves for its Burrup Hub."

Labor blow-up as MPs go rogue to pose with climate activists Resources Minister Madeleine King has rebuked her Labor colleagues after they went rogue and stood with activists campaigning to block Woodside’s gas fields despite it being deemed ‘integral’ to...

There's trouble in the Federal Labor ranks as select MP's stood with Greenpeace, @accr.bsky.social, Environs Kimberley and Doctors for the Environment to campaign against Woodside's Scarborough project climate bomb. Front page of the West Australian too.

Statement from Minister Bill Johnston | Western Australian Government Today I announce I am stepping down from Cabinet and that I will not seek re-election for the district of Cannington at the next election.

@bsky.app seems to be the right place to post this blue sky piece of news for Western Australia. The Minister considered responsible for getting in the way of meaningful climate action is stepping down. www.wa.gov.au/government/m...

Oh yes and that the owner of the West has gas interests? There’s that too 😊

Word from the UNFCCC #COP28 bureau yesterday:

92k people are registered for Blue zone - negotiations area
350 k people registered for the Green zone

This breaks all records.
Question is who are all these extra people?
Fossil fuel industry?

With the upcoming Annual Climate Change Statement and COP28 in Dubai (hosted by an oil baron), there’s about to be a whole lot of noise about how we’re *tack... 6 Ways to Spot Climate Scams

Brilliant @pollyjhemming.bsky.social video here - 6 actually genuinely very useful and straightforward principles to spot climate scams

#cop28

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMYV...

Your regular reminder that the world is still not doing nearly enough to avoid dangerous warming

If we'd started in 2000, emissions cuts of 3% a yr would have kept us below 1.5C

Now, they must fall 18% *every yr* – or we have to use "negative emissions"

www.carbonbrief.org/unep-humanit...

Via @natashafoote.bsky.social: "The European Parliament has rejected the proposal on the EU’s plan to slash the risk and use of pesticides in half - with rapporteur @wienerofficial calling this a “very dark day for the environment and farmers”"

The problem in Western Australia is that the #fossilfuel industry is lauded and all-powerful while their ongoing operations are not conflated with the impacts of #climatechange. See the online front page of our sole newspaper right now about catastrophic #bushfires...with a Woodside banner above.

Bright Shining - Julia Baird in Conversation - Wednesday 22nd November at 6.30pm - TICKET & DISCOUNT... Join us for Julia Baird in Conversation with Meri Fatin on Wednesday 22nd November at 6.30pm (Doors open 6pm) at the South Perth Community Hall, cnr Sandgate Street & South Terrace, South Perth. T...

"Grace is elusive and hard, and it's everywhere, shining bright like the sun." Can't wait to ask journalist and author Julia Baird about her book Bright Shining this Wednesday.
The book reaches into the far corners of our capacity for honouring another's humanity even when its not reciprocated.