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Tone Goodfellow

@goodfellow.bsky.social
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Adelaide/Ballarat. Spokesperson - Climate Media Centre. Master of Environment Melb uni. BNEWS Hons - UTAS. helping Ballarat Community Alliance, Ballarat Climate Action Network. Proud member of the ASU

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ballarat Rakalis...future AFL team
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“For every 10cm of vehicle height, the odds of a pedestrian death rise by 11 per cent.”
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“When we look at the Bullawah Wind Farm, we don’t simply see wind turbines. We see another opportunity to give our farming .. something that experience has taught us is incredibly valuable. Choice. Choice to reduce stock pressure before the country deteriorates." reneweconomy.com.au/we-dont-simp...
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"We don't simply see turbines:" Grazier says hosting wind farms eases pressure on land and helps prepare for drought
Farmer tells review forced by long distance objectors that hosting wind turbines enables him to better manage land, and prepare for the"will of the climate."
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"On extreme heat days – something western Sydney’s infamous heat island effect is known for – the temperaturd of the green roof was up to 28ºC lower than an aluminium roof." reneweconomy.com.au/kookaburras-...
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Kookaburras, bees and panels: Australia's first big "biosolar" roof slashes heat, boosts power by nearly 25%
A new Sydney suburb has become the testbed for biosolar rooftops in Australia – and the latest results from a groundbreaking project are stunning.
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 16/09/2026
@goodfellow.bsky.social says the WRL about-face looks more like a reaction to the “reckless positions” from the opposition and One Nation than sound leadership. “Communities should not be thrown back into uncertainty because the politics has become difficult in Melbourne." Damned straight! ✨
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Labor loses its spine on renewables as premier throws new energy minister, and transition, under the bus
One minute, Victoria's new energy minister was promising industry stakeholders that Labor will hold the line on renewables. The next minute, her boss was saying the exact opposite.
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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Exactly this. #auspol
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Calling for another review is so weak - it's the kind of weak leadership that's led to the festering discourse reneweconomy.com.au/controversia...
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Controversial power line connecting renewable zones gets environmental approval
Victoria's new energy minister has given environmental approvals for a major new but contested transmission line in Victoria.
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Damn good writing @katz.theracket.news
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purepapua.bsky.social @purepapua.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
WEST PAPUA: This is BIG. Melanesian countries may review Indonesia’s status in the Melanesian Spearhead Group over Jakarta’s continued delay in allowing UN human-rights access to West Papua. Open the door — or your seat at the table may be next. Pay attention to this one.
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Melanesian countries look to ban Indonesia's regional status over delay of UN visit to West Papua
Melanesian leaders are stepping up pressure on Jakarta to facilitate a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights visit to West Papua.There has also been a call to consider scrapping Indonesia'...
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Why don’t those damned oil companiesfly their own flags on their personal property—maybe a flag with a gas pump on it." Smedley Butler, 1937, War is a Racket dn721507.ca.archive.org/0/items/wari...
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Concern about the danger of passing the point of no return is not a reason to panic. The climate system’s delayed response provides time to take preventive actions, if the science is understood well enough to define effective policy actions.” James Hansen jimehansen.substack.com/p/runaway-cl...
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Runaway Climate: The Point of No Return
James Hansen
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 01/09/2026
Australia's largest contribution to the climate crisis - by some distance - is our production and export of coal and gas. While there are other things that are important as well if you forget to fight this, what are you fighting for? See here: naruresearch.com.au/australias-t...
Chart showing Australia's growing fossil fuel exports over time, with exports now more than double Australia's territorial emissions.
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@iandunt.bsky.social do you think in hindsight your epistemic scepticism failed when it came to the anti-Corbyn narrative/ factional and institutional forces amplifying anti-semitism as a "factional weapon" than you demanded from Corbyn's supporters, saying they're in a "cult."
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“constructive ambiguity” reads as cowardice
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 10/09/2026
Santos boss Kevin Gallagher spoke at the National Press Club on Wednesday. It'll blow your mind to discover that he spread an awfully large amount of shit. Me in The New Daily:
thenewdaily.com.au
Profits of doom: Gas boss stretches the truth at press club
Countries across our region are seeing gas as a strategic liability. That’s good for climate and energy security, but bad for gas executives.
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
'Delay is putting Victoria’s energy security at risk' and the report - recommended reading for Vic energy nerds/ journos nexaadvisory.com.au/web/wp-conte...
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Renewable-energy opposition can become a vehicle for a wider populist political identity. Germany’s AfD illustrates how that process can help turn energy-transition opposition from a discrete policy issue into a durable political realignment. Seeing the same with One Nation and right parties in oz
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There's never been a study like this done in Australia 'Anticipating and defusing the role of conspiracy beliefs in shaping opposition to wind farms' www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Anticipating and defusing the role of conspiracy beliefs in shaping opposition to wind farms - Nature Energy
Understanding the drivers of opposition to renewable energy infrastructure is increasingly important. Here the authors find an association between wind farm opposition and belief in conspiracy theorie...
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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“For a moment, [the Bridge] carried me from the isolation of grief into the strength of solidarity.” Shamikh Badra reflects on the Sydney Harbour Bridge march one year on, and on how to turn an exceptional moment into a lasting public tradition.
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One year after the Bridge: Palestine, people-power and Australia’s conscience - Overland literary journal
On that day, Palestine stood at the centre of one of Australia’s most recognised landmarks, and a broad and powerful public movement became visible. It was ready to defend Palestinian rights, but also...
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Turns out One Nation's energy policy is real as the tooth fairy - and people believe it? 'Too old, can’t dance: New numbers show Yallourn is ready to retire' reneweconomy.com.au/too-old-cant...
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Too old, can't dance: New numbers show Yallourn is ready to retire
Report says Yallourn is old and clunky and ready to retire, and replacing it gas rather than renewables will lead to big hike in power prices.
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“since the road construction and maintenance began being privatised in the mid-to-late 1990s by the Liberal Kennett government, the necessary ongoing maintenance was often neglected.”
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 10/09/2026
Former VicRoads staff say privatisation to blame for Victoria's crumbling roads
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Former VicRoads staff blame privatisation for state's crumbling roads
Former VicRoads staff say privatisation and road-building techniques are behind the horrific state of Victoria's roads.
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
While listening to the *climate denial* episode on Origin Story podcast by @iandunt.bsky.social & Dorian Lynskey there were adds for "natural gas" from the fossil fuel industry peak body Australian Energy Producers formerly the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA)
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Remember people thought a chat bot in 1966 had human level intelligence, ELIZA effect = tendency of humans to project human traits onto computer programs. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Accelerating the renewable energy revolution is crucial." p 50 @unep.org 'Limiting Overshoot: Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return' www.unep.org/resources/li...
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"The El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years & will pile extra heat into an atmosphere where temps are already rising rapidly due to global heating. The combo means 2027 is set to 'blow apart' the record & be the hottest year ever recorded." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching
Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/09/2026
Nice new report that includes this lovely little bit: by 2035 we could erase 100% of Hormuz oil and ~1,000% of Hormuz gas by switching to clean tech, EVs, energy efficiency etc. www.energy-transitions.org/wp-content/u...
Measures such as electric vehicles, renewable electricity, heating electrification, sustainable fuels and energy productivity could cut global oil demand 16–20% (displacing 82–110% of Hormuz flows) and gas demand 26–34% by 2035, reducing dependency on the Hormuz route.
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Climate misinformation in Australia has changed. Recent research shows it is increasingly focused on delaying or disrupting climate and energy action rather than denying climate change." Climate Change Authority report on Misinformation www.climatechangeauthority.gov.au/sites/defaul...
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Waiting for the right time to talk about climate change
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Josh Bornstein @joshbornstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The antisemitism royal commission has failed. My column explains what happened:
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The antisemitism royal commission made two big mistakes — will these compromise their findings? - ABC Religion & Ethics
Australian society has been riven by a combustible debate about antisemitism, criticism of Israel and the boundaries of free speech. The royal commission could have provided the intellectual and moral...
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On p.93 and loving it - get on it!
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“...if a restaurant serves poisoned food, it is up to the diner to refuse it.” - Richard H. Rovere, (heard it on Origin Story - McCarthyism: How one grifter still poisons America) Relevant to today, encapsulating the dangers of letting demagogues spread misinformation without media pushback
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
UNEP 1.5°C overshoot report article with my quotes in news.com.au. It demonstrates a failure of global government policy. Didn’t include my rant about Beetaloo gas project opening with government backing the previous day. www.news.com.au/news/uns-sta...
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Modelling of the implications of cancelling VNI West doesn't paint a pretty picture — not least for the politicians aspiring to steer energy policy in Victoria" Ben Potter theenergy.co/articles/vni...
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VNI West and the NEM tightrope
Modelling of the implications of cancelling VNI West doesn't paint a pretty picture — not least for the politicians aspiring to steer energy policy in Victoria
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Powering Australia’s Energy Shift - Farmers for Climate Action www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmLl...
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Powering Australia’s Energy Shift - A webinar with FCA
YouTube video by Farmers for Climate Action
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Some regional media bureaus have been pumping up this issue and have responsibility to the harm/politicisation
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"But the story that isn’t being told is that some of the biggest victims of increasingly strident “grass roots” opposition to renewable energy development are other farmers – those who support and wish to benefit from renewables." reneweconomy.com.au/intimidation...
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"Intimidation and bullying:" As some anti-wind farmers stage a "fightback," others are counting the cost
As one group wages war against "renewables multinationals," farmers wishing to host transmission towers or wind turbines are caught in an increasingly nasty crossfire.
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As expected we'll be paying more if the Liberal Party scrapped VNI West and they'll most probably transmission somewhere else - the policy decision has been made without doing the necessary modelling energycouncil.com.au/vni-west-a-m...
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VNI West: A multi-billion dollar question
On 19 August 2026, the Victorian Liberal-National Coalition announced, that if elected at the November 2026 Victorian election, it would cancel the Victoria to New South Wales Interconnector West (VNI...
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Important story on how to do renewables right, 'Reciprocal benefit in partnership between Aboriginal corp and Tasmanian wind farm' "Aunty Patsy has stewarded the relationship from the outset and says the collaboration "has been respectful and genuine from the beginning" nit.com.au/25-08-2026/2...
nit.com.au
Reciprocal benefit in partnership between Aboriginal corporation and Tasmanian wind farm
An Tasmanian Aboriginal corporation and a remote wind farm have formalised access to a parcel of culturally significant land, with a long-term vision of the freehold title being returned to Tasmanian ...
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When that AI bubble gonna burst? Gotta be soon yeah
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“It’s not a big deal:” How these wind turbine hosts manage decommissioning and maintenance issues,' Tom Gunthorpe is a second generation farmer and wind farm host reneweconomy.com.au/its-not-a-bi...
reneweconomy.com.au
"It's not a big deal:" How these wind turbine hosts manage decommissioning and maintenance issues
Farming group hosting one of Australia's newest wind farm says decommissioning not an issue, but have secured an escrow fund to deal with intermediate concerns.
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Robert Moses said, “When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat axe.” There are few places in this city where that axe was sharper, or where the hacking left such deep injury." www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
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Transcript: Mayor Mamdani Announces City to Complete Redesign on McGuinness Boulevard
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Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Wind projects are stalled because large energy companies are refusing to sign contracts for new projects, even when underpinned by feds. The govt could just require energy retailers to buy new renewables capacity. Coal is closing we can't keep messing around. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
Australia's green energy targets in 'jeopardy' as wind woes worsen
For Australia to phase out coal power and reach its 2030 green energy goals, wind is seen as essential. A drought of new projects has analysts worried.
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Jess Wilson's One Nation-Coalition's reckless decision will destroy electricity reliability across Victoria, guaranteeing blackouts and pushing up power bills." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Election fight heats up over proposed $7.6 billion powerline through Victoria
A key issue shaping up for this November's state election is Victoria's power supply. The Labor government has signed a deal for $7.6 billion powerline, while the Coalition has hardened its stance to ...
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