Tom Quinn

A chart showing sustained reduction in coal and gas for electricity generation in Australia.

Down down down.

Coal and gas are down.

#renewables #fossilfuels #Australia

The new quarterly update to Australia's emissions inventory shows emissions down 2.2% for the year to June 2025.

Emissions down across most sectors, except for transport.
www.dcceew.gov.au/climate-chan...

'Gaza is drowning in blood and rainwater': Heavy rain risks Palestinians with disease Gaza Is Seeing Widespread Flooding for the Third Consecutive Winter, as Rains Exacerbate the Plight of Displaced Residents. Floods Have Ravaged Refugee Camps, Destroying Belongings and Rendering Medic...

Storms are flooding Gaza's tent camps in a third consecutive winter of mass displacement, with rainwater even leaking into a hospital operating room

www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-11...

Israel carrying out air strikes on Gaza City, Rafah <article data-history-node-id="431992" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-carrying-out-air-strikes-gaza-city-rafah" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-carrying-out-air-strikes-gaza-city-rafah" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel carrying out air strikes on Gaza City, Rafah</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel is carrying out heavy overnight strikes on parts of Gaza City in the north, and Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, local media are reporting.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israel has already violated the 10 October ceasefire more than 500 times, officials in Gaza have said.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israel carrying out air strikes on Gaza City, Rafah - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-carrying-out-air-strikes-gaza-city-rafah

Israeli group B’Tselem notes that, since a supposed “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel has:

* killed 345 Palestinians,

* denied food to 70% of the population who need it,

* demolished a further 1,500 buildings.

All of this is in blatant violation of the agreement.

Intense rain and heavy winds continue to destroy tents in Gaza as Israel refuses to let any rebuilding take place as it blocks machinery and mobile homes from entering, which goes against the ceasefire agreement.

Live: Australia records single largest emissions drop outside of pandemic Australia has recorded its single largest drop in carbon emissions for a financial year outside of the COVID-19 pandemic. Follow live.

Australia has recorded its single largest drop in carbon emissions for a financial year outside of the COVID-19 pandemic. Follow live.

So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed

If only the #NACC could spend less time apologizing for its own behaviour,
and more time doing what it was set up to do. #auspol

BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels.

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Australia politics live: Labor strikes deal with the Greens to overhaul federal environmental protection laws Follow live

Labor has cut a deal with the Greens on federal environmental protection laws www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hundreds of jobs destroyed at the iconic CSIRO while we subsidise the US and UK military industrial establishments with no guarantee of ever receiving nuclear powered subs designed to attack China, our most important trading partner. Militarism gone mad! Well said Ed Husic 👏

Trump spends US taxpayers money on military golf courses. We subsidise the US war machine through the crazy $365B AUKUS fiasco.
We build public housing for a US base in Australia while our citizens are homeless.
The political establishment has gone crazy!

Australian #NHMRC Ideas grants are out. 8.1% success rate. Lowest since the scheme began. Congrats to the successful few, as it looks like less than 200 were funded. 🧪

This means that Israel killed directly 4% of Gaza residents
Injured probably another 4%
Indirect casualties (excess mortality) is still to be assessed.

"According to the United Nations, more than 2,100 Palestinians were killed while seeking aid, including many who were near or en route to GHF sites."

‘Imperial Israel’ in the New Middle East

“Almost daily Israeli strikes against Hezbollah, including the killing this week in Beirut of one of the militant group’s top commanders, punctuate a fraying peace. Lebanon exists in a gray zone between war and peace, which could also be the fate of Gaza”

warscape

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...

Alt text: from ABC news, Zero cervical cancer cases diagnosed in Australian women aged under 25 in 2021 - the first time since records began in 1982. (Please use alt text, people.)

Opulence for #AUKUS. Austerity for public services. #auspol

Mental health beds closed in Hobart due to rat infestation A rat infestation has forced the temporary closure of Peacock House, one of Tasmania's few public inpatient mental health facilities.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Here’s an idea, rather than waste money on a stadium, fix the fucking health system!

A graph plotting the CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP from 1978 to 2025. In 1980 it was around 0.17 %, since then it has sharply fallen to 0.03 %.

The dismantling of Science in #Australia continues...

I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.

ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...

#PlantScience

Australia take note Ukraine is a US ally.

We cannot trust the US to help Aus in times of need. AUKUS is a one way deal. Our taxpayer cash flows to the US. We lose sovereignty and become a target in the event of war. We don’t even get the subs we are paying through the nose for.

Ditch AUKUS.

NT cuts legal aid for anyone out of custody The Northern Territory has made widespread cuts to free legal representation, leaving children as young as 10 to represent themselves in court.

The Northern Territory has enacted widespread cuts to free legal representation, leaving children as young as 10 to represent themselves in court, reports Russell Marks. satpa.pe/prYHzFX

Israel has killed two Palestinian children in Gaza every single day since the so-called ceasefire

Meanwhile Jakarta is sinking but still growing, Dhaka is projected to be the world’s bigger city by 2050 as more people flee flooding and Tehran is almost out of water, just three ways climate change is effecting mega-cities right now.

"My most vivid memories of my school life is Farage repeatedly coming up to me, knowing that I was Jewish, saying 'Hitler was right' and 'gas em' and that was frequently followed by imitating the sound of escaping gas."

Peter Ettedgui, ex classmate of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage.

Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to start serving his 27-year sentence in a 12 sq metre bedroom in a police base in the capital, Brasília, after his conviction for plotting a coup. The far-right populist, who governed Latin America’s largest democracy from 2019 until 2022, was handed the punishment in September after the supreme court found him guilty of leading a criminal conspiracy to stop his leftwing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking power. Continue reading...

Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup

More than six weeks after the Gaza ceasefire came into force, journalists are still prevented by the Israeli military from entering the Gaza Strip.

While the situation in Gaza remains desperate, the biggest short term risk is in the West Bank. The settlers'+IDF relentless campaign of terror, and the PA weakness could lead to sudden collapse and dramatic escalation in ethnic cleansing and carnage.

There are over 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. Is it not time that we released some of these people?

#MarwanBarghouti #Palestine #Palestinianprisoners