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LEFT: Someone who appears in the Epstein files over a million times. Epstein called him his "best friend."

RIGHT: Someone never mentioned in the Epstein files—even once. And she never met him.

So guess which one is being hauled before our corrupt, cover-upping Congress to testify about Epstein.

Taylor snares himself in Dutton's migration trap — because without migrants, we're f***ed Angus Taylor faces the same problem as Peter Dutton on migration: you can scare voters about who's coming in, but what about demands to cut migration altogether?

Know anyone concerned about migration? Bernard Keane’s excellent piece is a must read! — because without migrants, we’re f***ed www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/16/a...

Today, under the cover of the Liberals tearing each other down, Labor has approved another coal mine extension.

Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects.

In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.

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Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Drugs policy approach needs to change, Zack Polanski says The Green Party leader of England and Wales says there needs to be a

Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs.

They've stopped people from using drugs safely.

It's time to legalise *and* regulate.

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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny – and this one ticks every box A sweeping new bill to combat antisemitism, hate and extremism was rushed through federal parliament this week with minimal scrutiny and major rule-of-law flaws. Its vague definitions, retrospective r...

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny – and this one ticks every box johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...

I just signed this open letter to the ABC. getup.to/mzYJ2rT1Cp4yIJ

I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

Welcome to Moscow on the Torrens … 🤬

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LOVE this graphic, & the article it accompanies.

Giving Jillian Segal even more influence over Australian policy when she still hasn't denounced far-right group "Advance" (which she bankrolls) is extremely poor governing.

Australia deserves far better.

I am shocked by Premier Minns- trashing democratic freedoms in NSW to appease authoritarian extremists who characterise the March for Humanity as violent.
A violent lie to protect genocide.

NSW to effectively ban protests for up to three months as premier links Gaza rallies to Bondi terror attack Chris Minns says state ‘can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW [because] the implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday’

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The media's ongoing amnesia regarding Pauline Hanson Pauline Hanson and One Nation have long seemed incapable of doing anything that would stop the media from airing their views as if in a vacuum.

The media’s ongoing amnesia regarding Pauline Hanson is despicable.

Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.

We can stop AUKUS! getup.to/7lOe2pHwCzN4cn
We MUST stop AUKUS!
Please sign and share!

Got a mention in this piece. Thanks, Bill!

''Justin Mikulka has a pointed take on why this strategy won’t work for the LNG industry, and new data emerged this week showing just how badly it is going to penalize Americans who depend on propane for heating....."

Says propane but should be methane.

EVs beat petrol cars on lifetime emissions — even on “dirty” grids.
Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km.

We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.

Time to stop tiptoeing around and step on the gas to ease inflation For a decade, a disaster has unfolded. We've run short of gas through indecision and incompetence, and that's driving energy costs and inflation. We need a solution and an unlikely source may have one...

Why Australia has high power prices - (thanks SANTOS! 🤬)
And the simple solution that will benefit ALL Australians (except the fossil fuel industry that’s caused the problem!)

TAX GAS COMPANIES PROPERLY & make SANTOS pay for the gas it’s exporting!! (thus fixing the PRRT!)

#ACTU #TAI #Greens

NSW Labor gets handsy with taxpayer dollars in PR push for dog abuse NSW's Labor government has sat on a report into abuses in the greyhound racing industry for months. Is it about to release it while we're all distracted by Christmas?

NSW has gone to the dogs 🤬

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:

In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.

In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

New data from Chevron on its Gorgon carbon capture and storage project shows the lowest amount of carbon dioxide captured and stored since it started in 2019.

@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”

Some might say, hacking billboards is noble work. 😉

Trump's desperation on the Epstein files has cost him the support of Marjorie Taylor Greene. What about his base?

If Trump has lost Marjorie Taylor Green, is his base lost too? @theshufflediary.bsky.social examines the sudden shift in MAGA rhetoric.

The Liberals' climate policy is so bad even denialists are shocked. What will moderates do? The Liberals' surrender on climate is so abject even the Nationals think it has gone too far. But will Liberal moderates do anything? Hardly.

The Liberals’ climate policy is so bad even denialists are shocked. What will moderates do? www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/17/l...

FFS. What a disaster.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

New ECI-led study finds plant-based diets could reshape global farming jobs — cutting costs by up to $995B a year & shifting labour from livestock to horticulture.

🔗 www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...

#FoodSystems #PlantBased #Sustainability #OxfordResearch #OxfordMartinSchool

Electricity retailers will be required to offer free solar power to households for at least three hours in the middle of each day, in a radical federal government reform.

Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, report suggests Researchers attempt to calculate the number of deaths attributable to the war on terrorism, across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

Not sure how many Cheney obits will mention this murderous legacy of his.