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Eleanor Padman

@ellie1p.bsky.social
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Recovering lawyer. Corporate governance, ESG and sustainability consultant. Interested in social and environmental justice and addressing inequality. Living on Wangal country.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Record installations of home solar and battery systems. Next will be record purchases of EVs. #auspol
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 07/05/2026
A recent ad from the Minerals Council of Australia wants you to believe the mining industry pays enough tax to fund Medicare. Which is NOT TRUE for 8 out of the last 10 years! #auspol
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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
www.smh.com.au/world/asia/m... So much propaganda, so many articles in SMH bashing EVs. Days of not enough chargers and now the Reds Under The Bed are clocking your every move. Because school sport on a Saturday is worth listening in to. Yawn 🥱 🥱 #auspol
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‘Made in China’ EVs are taking over the streets, but just how safe is your data?
The local EV brands have showcased their AI chops at China’s annual car show in Beijing. And with many of these vehicles ready to land in Australia, there is one issue that’s slipping through the crac...
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
@fionakatauskas.bsky.social sums-up perfectly what the Liberal Party has become under Angus Taylor: a One Nation cover band. Breathtakingly accurate commentary. #auspol #racism
Fiona Katauskas cartoon depicts a pub band Angus and the Blowhards. A woman sitting at the bar explains to her friend "It's just a One Nation cover. But the guy on the dogwhistle thinks he's hitting the right notes.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Okay, who did this? 😂
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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A reminder that continuing to defend the indefensible and normalise insane rhetoric is a political choice. #auspol
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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"It’s clear that the US president has been threatening to escalate in order to de-escalate". News Flash, James Paterson: hours later, it's "escalating" again. All part of Trump's 4D chess strategy, right? 🙄 #auspol #IranWar
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is an excellent summary of current circumstances Kyle Kulinski: “A sundowning president with Alzheimer’s who’s a malignant narcissist is dragging us into WWIII, committing war crimes on a daily basis and crashing the global economy, and nobody is actually grabbing the steering wheel.”
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Andrew Hastie … welcome to the resistance www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Andrew Hastie open to 25% tax on gas profits and says multinationals have ‘had a really good run’ on Australian wealth
Exclusive: speaking with the Australian Politics podcast, the Liberal frontbencher says a sovereign wealth fund would set Australians up for generations to come
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Cosmic Clau @cosmicclau.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
they should invent a type of physical therapy that involves eating cheese
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
How can this go on for another 3 years?
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Brendan Bartanen @brendanbartanen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
lol this is an incredible video
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/03/2026
Please enjoy this message from the Norwegian consumer protection council www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 02/03/2026
Penny Wong was asked if the Australian Government believes that Trump's war on Iran - which Labor supports - was illegal. She couldn't answer. This is Australia under the ALP: providing political cover for a rogue state while it wreaks chaos and death across the world.
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Thinking of Jon Kudelka and those who are in Tasmania today (awful place, never go there) attending his farewell. So very sad that we will never see another new, brilliant toon from him. Love to his family and friends. 🤍
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Peacefully protesting isn’t a crime, war crimes are. #Auspol
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46K views · 2.1K reactions | Repost of my stories from last night with captions. | David Pocock
Repost of my stories from last night with captions.
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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
😢😢😢 #auspol www.smh.com.au/goodfood/doz...
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Dozer the beloved dog of RecipeTin Eats’ fame has died
The chief taste tester and beloved best friend of RecipeTin Eats’ Nagi Maehashi has gone to the big dog kitchen in the sky.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Excellent primer on the Atlas Network and it’s impact on Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how
A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Time to end AUKUS, remove US bases and chart an independent, principled and safe defence and foreign policy for Australia. Cringing in fear under the tattered US umbrella while it’s being used to beat up US allies is no longer a credible plan.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/01/2026
Transforming lives, from the bottom up, with no need for imperial wars.
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Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Hey @albomp.bsky.social , are we “all the way with DJT”? Because I think we Australians are going to need a little reassurance from you that this is NOT your idea of a safe alliance either, and that being blu-tacked to a lunatic will not end well for us. Thanks for your consideration.
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Glen Le Lievre @lelievre.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Donny Roger
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Some of the most useful insights into what’s happening to America are coming from political analysts outside the United States. Here’s a particularly lucid essay that I think you should read. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-true…
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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A voice of quiet reflection 🙏👇 #auspol
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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Very insightful writing. “This is no longer the rusted-on National Party voter. It is a new product category: the insecure traditionalist male. Call it the dislocated patriarch, the status casualty, the affable bloke refashioned as a grievance consumer.” #auspol theaimn.net/we-need-to-t...
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We need to Talk About Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin: How Australia’s Men Became a Market for Rage The Demographic Stampede Something has shifted in the Coalition’s heartland, and it’s not policy. It’s identity. Australian me...
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 10/12/2025
"If we're really concerned about criminals in this country, leaving the ECHR would be exactly like Brexit, in that it would have the opposite effect" - European Movement UK Chair, Dr Mike Galsworthy, on Keir Starmer's calls to reform the ECHR.
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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This is exactly why we need legislation in Australia. AI will be used for a whole range of life impacting decisions - insurance claims, NDIS packages, mortgage approvals, job applications. Letting that rip without regulations (and therefore accountability) is a recipe for disaster. #auspol
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Hang on, Starmer is implying the Supreme Court ruling *that emissions from burning fossil fuels should be considered as part of the impact of drilling* is 'misguided'? It's not fluffy do-goodery, it's based on hard, inconvenient facts. We need environmental protections to protect the irreplaceable.
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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
On the driest inhabited continent on the planet… #auspol
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
When it comes to money-losing tech revolutionaries, OpenAI is in a class by itself. (via Deutsche) @weisenthal.bsky.social
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/12/2025
People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers. Anyway, about China ...
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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This is an inexplicably poor decision. As AI pioneer Yoshua Benigo has pointed out AI is less regulated than a sandwich. Massive global impact but just waived through. 🤦🏻‍♀️ #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Enable workers’ talents’: no need for AI legislation in Australia, Labor says
Roadmap focuses on technology’s ‘economic benefits’ and says existing laws will cover the fast-growing new technology
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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
“It is most likely now that Joyce will run for One Nation in the Senate. The money is good and the role is unburdened by expectations of competence. Past candidates have been car thieves and conspiracy theorists.” #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22189/...
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Barnaby Joyce’s political grey area
You can say this about Barnaby Joyce: it took him eating dinner in Pauline Hanson’s parliamentary office to realise how much he resembles a steak cooked on an open sandwich press. What the man lacks i...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 28/11/2025
"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals." An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
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How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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Market Forces @marketforces.org.au · 28/11/2025
NYC pension funds could set a global precedent by ditching BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, on climate grounds. Meanwhile in Australia, our largest super fund #AustralianSuper has thrown its support behind the fossil fuel expansion plans of climate wreckers like Woodside & Whitehaven 😡
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans. Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 26/11/2025
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Why are we sacking scientists who are so essential to understanding our climate crisis? To understanding the horrific algae bloom assaulting SAs beaches? The changes in our oceans? Madness. www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...
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Axed Flinders Uni algal bloom expert tells true cost of crisis - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
A Flinders University algal bloom expert – whose role was scrapped as part of a restructure – has shared his worrying insights into the disaster and blasted estimations the marine death toll is 87,000...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/11/2025
Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!
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What's the deal with balcony solar?
Cora Stryker joins me to explain how "plug-in" solar took Europe by storm and is finally, via Utah (?), making its way to America.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/11/2025
JFC. Three gigawatts of fossil-fuelled power for a new Amazon data centre @beninskeep.bsky.social points out the new gas plant could produce 4x the harmful climate pollution as the coal plant it's replacing 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 www.utilitydive.com/news/nisourc...
A Northern Indiana Public Service Co. affiliate — called NIPSCO Generation, or GenCo — plans to build up to 3 GW of gas-fired generation and battery storage to serve planned Amazon data centers, the companies said Monday. Combined with electric transmission to be built by NIPSCO, the companies expect to spend about $7 billion.

Under the arrangement, GenCo plans to build two 1.3-GW gas-fired power plants and a 400-MW, 4‐hour battery storage system to serve the data centers, according to filings at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. In comparison, NIPSCO expects its non-data center load in 2028 will be about 2.3 GW.

The IURC on Nov. 19 reaffirmed a September decision to approve the GenCo framework, which is designed to ensure that NIPSCO’s existing customers don’t pay for infrastructure needed to serve hyperscalers like Amazon. Under the framework, GenCo will own and operate power plants for large load customers.

NIPSCO, a NiSource subsidiary, expects its 15-year deal with Amazon will produce about $1 billion in savings for its ratepayers. Those savings will be reflected as a credit on customers’ electric bills, according to a Nov. 7 filing by NIPSCO and NIPSCO Generation at the IURC. Residential customers will receive roughly $7 in monthly savings, according to the utility.Also, the 2.6-GW of gas-fired generation GenCo plans to build at its coal-fired Schahfer power plant site could produce nearly four times the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that the existing Schahfer coal plant emitted in 2023, according to Inskeep.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
7.2 runs an over is insane #Ashes
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 21/11/2025
These T20 Test matches take a bit of getting used to #Ashes
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Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Australia, Canada and India have just agreed on a new trilateral partnership. 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇮🇳 Together we will find new ways to cooperate on technology, and innovation in areas like clean energy, critical minerals and Ai. I look forward to working with you, for the mutual benefit of our nations.
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