David Tomkins

Queensland Museum accused of misleading teachers and children about the cause of climate change Education program sponsored by Shell’s Queensland Gas Company is ‘climate obstruction dressed up as education’, advocacy group says

Queensland Museum has been accused of misleading teachers and children about the root cause of the climate crisis through a multimillion-dollar education partnership with one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies.
#climatecrisis #gas #shell #qld #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Waste Management here in the US has been running the same ads on it's trucks, www.google.com/search?clien... , and total failure to acknowledge natural gas is 70%+ methane.

When a gov chooses to expand #FossilFuels it's also choosing:
more heat in the system
more extreme fire weather
more pressure on emergency services
more trauma for families
more risk pushed onto our children who haven't consented to any of it
That isn’t just hypocrisy. It’s a failure of duty
#Auspol

Albanese warns of ‘difficult’ bushfire season ahead as cooler conditions bring relief to disaster-ravaged NSW Most active fires contained on Sunday as disaster payments announced after at least 12 homes in Koolewong and four at Bulahdelah were destroyed

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne.... We could have a fleet of water Bombers if Scott Morrison listened to our Fire Chiefs and purchased some instead of donating millions to his Evangelical Church. Anyone who loses their property blame ScoMo #Auspol #News #Aus

YIK I'm addicted, but that spike in One Nation support is becoming difficult to ignore. Note the coincident decline in 'remainder' support (independents + micros), as well as in LNP support.

Recovery Assistance Photos Ops Aren't Climate Leadership It’s the first week of summer (December 2025) and we’re already living the script: dangerous heat, fires ripping through communities, homes destroyed, evacuations, and governments activating disaster ...

It’s the first week of summer (December 2025) and we’re already living the script: dangerous heat, fires ripping through communities, homes destroyed, evacuations, and governments activating disaster assistance.
#climatecrisis #bushfires #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/recover...

"if Labor can’t deal with this lowest hanging of fruit on transparency and good process...how can they be trusted on more difficult policy matters with even louder vested interests?"

They are connected.

For a government driven by vested interests, transparency is kryptonite. #auspol

Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns

To be real clear
This is not about evidence.
No new harm have been discovered.
This is about personal beliefs.
It's about power. It's about controlling you.
It WILL cause harm.

Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

“the overall effect, transparency advocates warn, is to create a parallel system of policy development that is largely invisible to parliament, the public and the media”.

Albo’s latest accountability avoidance trick:
#FOI does not even apply if you can disappear any inconvenient info. #auspol

Over a third of animals impacted in deep sea mining test - scientists The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.

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South Australian bus ads misled public by claiming gas is ‘clean and green’, regulator finds Ads to be removed from Adelaide Metro buses after advertising regulator rules they breach its environmental claims code

South Australia’s transport department misled the public by running ads on buses claiming “natural gas” was “clean and green”, the advertising regulator has found.
#climatecrisis #GAS #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hands off our State Library! Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...

Yeah there’s young and old seeing out #RisingTide together 💙🩵💙

Climate protesters in kayaks disrupt operations at Australia port Dozens have been arrested during climate protests at one of the world's biggest coal export ports.

Great action @risingtideaus.bsky.social

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Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle NSW police arrest 141 people as campaigners demand federal government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%

Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle #RisingTide #Australia www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Are we in a ‘delayed disclosure trap’? The risk that better institutional climate risk assessments will not be done

The sheer scale of the underlying climate risk could, in the act of disclosure, have a material financial effect, whether driven by disbelief, investor flight to purportedly ‘safer’ assets, or some other mechanism. strategicclimaterisks.substack.com/p/are-we-in-...

What a weekend!

End capitalism, solve the climate crisis!

#auspol
#risingtide

Coal worker Zac at #RisingTide on urgent transition 👉🏼 “We need to be prepared for it. At the heart of the fears of these people in the industry, that I spend almost every day with, is that their communities will be uprooted, that their livelihoods will be lost.”

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💪🏽We stand with coal workers 💪🏼

As the #RisingTide crossed into the channel to disrupt the coal export industry, Zack Tritton talked on the beach about bridging the gap between climate activists and workers, standing up to corporate greed together 💚❤️💙

Footage of #RisingTide champions locking on to coal equipment. We're still disrupting coal exports because Labor is failing to act on climate and failing to support workers. When governments fail to protect, the people will rise!

This Hot New Plug-In Hybrid Acts Like An EV—Complete With DC Fast-Charging With a large battery and a powerful e-motor doing most of the work, the petrol engine is a rarely used range extender in the Lynk & Co 08.

The Lynk & Co 08's big battery and a powerful e-motor do most of the work, leaving the gas engine as a rarely used range extender.

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Sensitive parliament communications handed to contractor without security clearance The team of a contractor that was the victim of a Russia-linked hack did not have the necessary security clearance when it received thousands of sensitive communications between politicians and parlia...

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We now have an unprecedented level of income & wealth inequality.

It isn’t acceptable that the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%, while a majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

We must stand together & create an economy that works for all, not just the few.

Taking a different turn as I watch a drone buzz overhead filming who knows what, launched by who knows whom from who knows where?
I'm amazed we haven't yet seen harm caused by bad actors or disenfranchised (trying to cover a wide range here) people using drones to damage civilian infrastructure. 1/3

Agree or disagree?

Hotter, drier and more fire danger: What to expect from summer 2025-26 | The New Daily Today is the official start to summer and the weather bureau has offered us an outlook for what to expect over the next three months

“There’s an increased risk of fire this summer for parts of central-northern NSW, much of southern Victoria, and regions in the west and south of Western Australia,” senior climatologist Lynette Bettio said.
#climatecrisis #bushfires #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/weather...

Two cars, similar size, but one emits 17 times more of a deadly pollutant New rules around NOx, the most deadly form of vehicle pollution, come into force today, as testing reveals which popular models are pumping out more than others.

“Vehicles that burn petrol/diesel emit..NOx, linked to most of the hundreds of annual deaths attributed to air pollution from vehicles.. testing shows many vehicles, banned in Europe but allowed in Australia, emit several times more NOx than lab-test rules allow”
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90 minutes later - almost 250 kayaks all deflated

Handmade sown fabric banner reading "The people's blockade of the world's largest coal port 2025". Backround is a beach with a ship and people in kayaks.

Handmade screenprinted fabric banner reading "Labor, your climate policy is bullshit!" White text on a blue banner. Mounted on a white gazebo with two blue flags on the corners. One with the rising tide logo, one reading "no new gas".

Handmade sown fabric banner reading "COAL KILLS KIDS" in white text on a black background. Mounted on a white gazebo with lots of white plastic chairs. A blue flag on the gazebo has the rising tide logo.

the 2025 people's blockade was inspiring and incredible as always! thank you to the tireless work of all the organisers and volunteers!
and of course to all of this years 129 arrestees! #RisingTide

Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle NSW police arrest 141 people as campaigners demand federal government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Great stuff from @risingtideaus.bsky.social