It’s hard to believe federal politicians think it’s fine to be members of a registered lobbying organisation sponsored by the peak body for gambling.

They’re like frogs in hot water.

I’ll be reintroducing my Clean Up Politics Act on our first day back.

Image of USA military based in other countries, Source: IBON Foundation https://www.ibon.org/author/xands/

The USA is right to be alarmed at the idea of a foreign military base on it's soil,

but...........

If you're in #Boroondara, Lighter Footprints is your local #climateaction group! Come chat with us at tomorrow's Electrify Boroondara Expo.
We'll be brainstorming which climate issues are important to our community, and what more we can do locally - we'd love to hear your ideas!

I reckon police would want to have a word with anyone wielding a 2 metre steel pipe while walking among pedestrians.

But that's exactly what these vehicles are doing daily.

For 49 years I've been seeing similar news items; people injured or killed, and the vehicle with a bull bar clearly visible in the story.

Bull bars increase the risk of pedestrian injury and death.

I can't remember every seeing a bull on the roads of our towns and cities.

Lots of people though.

Bull bars increase the risk of injury and death for pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, and even vehicle drivers and passengers.

Bull bars are unnecessary and aggressive.

Most vehicle manufacturers don't fit bull bars, and don't want to know about them.

image of truck involved in fatal collision with schoolboy, showing large rigid bull bar on the front of the truck. Image from ABC News Victoria, 7:00 p.m. bulletin, 10 October 2025

Yesterday a schoolboy was killed after being hit by a truck in Bendigo.

Notice anything about the truck?

I investigated the effect of 'bull bars' on pedestrian safety as part of my mechanical engineering (vehicle design) degree, in 1976.
@victoriapolicenews.bsky.social
@muarcresearch.bsky.social

If you want a detailed step through of exactly how Oz is getting screwed I found this a good one from Macrobiz.

Which makes the Labor cabinet today's actions all very special.

#auspol

www.macrobusiness.com.au/2023/05/gas-...

That's an expensive bicycle.

In Australia, industrial electricity users can select their retailer, but of course there is only one network servicing each property.

The only way to avoid these monopoly charges is to generate electricity on the premises ('behind-the-meter') with solar or renewable heat-to-power.

bit.ly/3IbtLgE

The airlines will stop cancelling and delaying flights only when we enforce penalties for them doing that for commercial reasons.

The govt needs to hold the airlines to account with a compensation scheme for avoidable delays and cancellations. It’s worked overseas, it would work here.

No child should shake in their sleep as bombs erupt overhead or plead through a camera lens to die with their parents so they won’t be left alone.

More than 20,00 children have been killed.
 
The U.S. has manufactured & delivered weapons that rain down on civilians in Gaza.

Gas is not a climate policy South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has thrown himself into a fight that is not his own.

Australia faces a simple choice: double down on gas and miss our climate targets, or accelerate renewables and build a clean industrial base. Gas is not a bridge. It is a dead end. #auspol #fossilfuels

A reminder …

Whale and her calf entangled in shark net off Queensland coast ‘Heartbreaking’ drone footage has captured the moment a mother and calf became trapped. Four humpbacks have been snared in recent days

One mother and calf trapped for five days ... in distress all this time. FOUR whales now caught in these filthy nets and no way to free them.
Drowning!
Heartbreaking 🥵
BAN shark nets!!!!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: Phase out fossil fuels Emissions reduction targets won’t solve the climate crisis if they’re built on fiction. It's time for the government to tackle the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – fossil fuels.

It's time for the government to tackle the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – fossil fuels.

I signed the @australiainstitute.org.au petition: Phase out fossil fuels. Will you join me? ✍️

nb.australiainstitute.org.au/phase-out-fo...

These things are frigging useless for other than killing non-target species. Ban them.

The competitive component of industrial electricity bills in Australia, i.e. the retail component, usually accounts for less than half of the total cost.

The non-competitive components, mainly the monopoly network charges, account for most of the bill.

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Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians

nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...

Green farming land mixed with bush areas on sloping hills, depicting no transmission lines. Inset image of the Barton Heat Engine on-site at an industrial plant converting output of pollutant to heat and transferring energy back to the plant. Climate Action stamped on the engine container door. Renewable Energy - 24/7 slogan with Capricorn Powers logo.

What if We Didn’t Need New Transmission Lines to Power the Renewable Revolution?

Geoff Andrews has penned this article on our solution using bioenergy.. 👇

bit.ly/46k4o3V

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#RenewableEnergy
#Technology
#Bioenergy

The ABC is inventing China's war history When interviewing a guest, journalists are free to ask whatever questions they want. But they can’t have their own facts.

The ABC is inventing China's war history johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

✍️ PETITION: Australia Needs a National Firearms Register Our research has revealed there are now more licenced firearms in Australia than before the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. ✍️ Add your name to call on the Federal Government to urgently establish a Nation...

30 years!!

Sign the petition calling for a National Firearms Register – a reform first pledged in 1996 that is critical to preventing future tragedies in Australia. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/australia_ne...

Transmission interruption interrupts Transition!

There's an opportunity to accelerate our transition to renewable electricity,
and overcome the transmission restrictions and concerns,
by deploying modular, distributed, renewable electricity generators.

bit.ly/41x3Fes

✍️ PETITION: Australia Needs a National Firearms Register Our research has revealed there are now more licenced firearms in Australia than before the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. ✍️ Add your name to call on the Federal Government to urgently establish a Nation...

How hard can it be to have a single registry for all the guns in Australia?

We've been waiting 30 years.

Just get on with it.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/australia_ne...

Notice anything about this photo from the Sydney Metro, taken on a cold, rainy, windy day?

Explained by being the day of the huge City to Surf fun run.

Brrrrr.

Congratulations to the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge winners & all competitors 👏👏👏
@smartenergycouncil.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social #DUST #Adelaide #COP31
worldsolarchallenge.org/latest-news/...

And you wonder why we have such little trust in government…. My Clean Up Politics Act would regulate lobbyists’ activities, but I can’t clean up the Liberal Party - that’s over to you.

Sad, that we know who you are referring to without naming him.

Nationals back Greens probe into delayed climate report Nationals senator Ross Cadell says Labor’s climate credibility lies with the release of the report.

The government's been sitting on its climate risk report for months; its credibility is at stake. As the saner Nationals (not Barnaby) are saying, every farmer knows that climate risk is "not theoretical, it’s personal, and it’s growing.”

Primitive ancient man holding his arm up to the electrical transmission tower in outback Australia.

Could this be the technology to overcome the need to upgrade transmission lines?

In this weeks article, Geoff Andrews writes about the "missing link" in our energy transition to sustainable green energy.

👉🏼 bit.ly/3Vbfljb

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