Lorna Jay

The Australia Institute proudly co-hosted a climate summit yesterday, attended by people from all over Australia.

And although there were lots of different views, everyone agreed on one thing: it's time to stop the expansion of fossil fuels.

#auspol @leanneminshull.bsky.social

More #Hail was predicted thanks to #climatechange #Brisbane

Good advice for Australian mainstream media.

Who were far more obsessed with whether our PM would get a meeting with the flaky fascist,
than seriously examining why we have such a close alliance with a dangerously bonkers authoritarian who enjoys shitting on his citizens. #auspol

Time the foreign owned coal, oil and gas corporates destroying our climate and making floods and fires worse started paying the costs

… instead of Aussie homeowners!

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Support our climate disaster levy on fossil fuel exports🧵👇

"One of the biggest impediments to increasing the amount of people we have who could work is our incredibly low unemployment benefits

People can't afford to put money on their travel card, they can't go to the dentist & they can't have something to wear to go to the interview"

Adele Ferguson (journalist leading an ABC investigation into child abuse at childcare centres) just told ABC AM that 84% of child abuse occurs in "for profit" (eg privatised) centres.

These centres are putting making money ahead of checking for pedophiles. Who cares about pedos? There's $$ to make

There were many disturbing revelations in tonight’s #4Corners on the crisis in #childcare.

Amongst the worst were the responses from Federal and State governments.
Who appear to be suggesting that systemic child abuse needs no further investigation or action beyond current commitments. #auspol

The Australian government's 'welfare' system is the opposite. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No surprise there! 😡

The Australian Cartoonists Association welcomes the decision of the federal Attorney-General, Michelle aRowland, to reject the Productivity Commission’s proposal to exempt tech companies from copyright laws, which would have handed them free rein to mine creative content to train their Artificial Intelligence models, without recognition or recompense for artists. We are glad the Albanese Government recognises the value and precarious of the creative industries and encourage their ongoing support of artists in all fields. Cathy Wilcox President ACA

A statement from me, on behalf of the Australian Cartoonists Association:

#ClimateCriminals

My two takeaways on this:

1. CNN's CEO is utterly craven. No surprise there.

2. The White House is getting very nervous about how poorly the demolition of the East Wing is going over with most Americans. Good.

As the Trump Administration slides further and further into authoritarianism, it becomes increasingly clear Australia needs to escape the disastrous AUKUS deal.

Two-thirds of Australians support a Parliamentary Inquiry into AUKUS.

Add your name to the call. ✍️⤵️ #auspol

Pregnant women report medical neglect in ICE detention, rights groups say Women report miscarriages, delayed care, being shackled and being held in solitary confinement, letter says

"Pregnant women have reported bleeding, miscarriages, being shackled and other instances of medical neglect while in US immigration custody, according to a group of prominent civil rights organizations"

Trump's US: ICE thugs play out their racism and #WarOnWomen.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Robin Williams said, "I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, 'Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?' And I said, 'Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?'"

After removing ministerial ability to revoke a past decision even if there's impt new info on impacts of the action or a change of circumstances (EPBC Reconsiderations Bill), the @albomp.bsky.social gov's now gunning to give the Minister ability to override EPBC for projs in the "national interest"

Pepper ball rounds Trump immigration agents are firing at protesters:

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...

Australia's expansion of fossil fuels a 'failure of national duty' says former ADF Chief Admiral Chris Barrie has said that inaction has left Australia 'dangerously exposed' to climate change.

Admiral Chris Barrie doesn't hold back speaking to the Climate Crisis Summit in Canberra, saying the expansion of fossil fuels was a “failure of national duty”.

“Security analysts are blunt, cascading climate impacts will drive instability, insecurity and conflict,” he said. #auspol

How isn’t everyone continually laughing at this bloviating, narcissistic jackass when he pipes up with this crap? How aren’t reporters’ eyes rolling right out of their heads whenever he opens his lying mouth?

The contemporary centrist Labor Party is stacked with deeply institutionalised party apparatchiks and party elites who are more interested in holding onto incumbency than actually doing anything big, bold, and transformational with it.
The environment and those in poverty are not its priority

Penny Wong accidentally saying the quiet bit out loud - for Labor the US relationship is more important than the Australian environment. Who do this lot think they work for?

@australianlabor.bsky.social has failed on 6 of 7 fields: secrecy, jobs for mates, reining in lobbyists, parliamentary accountability, an independent public service & oversight of the executive branch of gov.

@albomp.bsky.social more secretive than the pathological liar.
We need Change.
#Auspol

So the Robodebt class action members will get micropayments of what was unlawfully taken from them and the lawyers who settled will get millions

So when is this gonna drop nationwide. I've heard it only once before now.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

"Every year I used to get around 10 to 12 tanks of olive oil ... This year, not even a single drop — this is what the occupation has left us with. The goal of the settlers is to seize and colonize this land, and to drive us out of it by any means possible. But we will not leave."

ICE agents hold UK journalist and Israel critic Sami Hamdi at San Francisco airport Far-right activist Laura Loomer took credit for Hamdi’s arrest

Trump's secret police kidnap a prominent British journalist at San Francisco International, apparently because he spoke critically of Benjamin Netanyahu. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Who is Catherine Connolly, Ireland's new left-leaning, indepdendent president-elect? The 68-year-old former barrister is known for being one of the leading pro-Palestinian voices in the Irish parliament.

The 68-year-old former barrister is known for being one of the leading pro-Palestinian voices in the Irish parliament.

Eyes on Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti and the Caribbean as Hurricane Melissa is forecast to arrive with high winds and drop massive amounts of rain.
Terms being used by forecasters are ...
Unprecedented
Historic
Never Before
... most media still avoiding .. CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED