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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Big Oil walked so Big Tech could run and now the two are joining up to take down democracy. In today's pod, @gilduran.com and @amywestervelt.bsky.social on how corporations warped the information ecosystem and how the tech billionaires broke democracy drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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How Tech Billionaires Broke Democracy | The Spill - Drilled
Carbon credit markets have come under fire for creative climate accounting, fraud, and land use problems. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera says they have a human rights problem too.
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 18h
What’s happening to our climate is utterly terrifying. We’re looking at 4 degrees above average this southern summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
A time for peace: End the war on walking, cycling, and transit www.transportxtra.com/publications/… Over the last hundred years, road lobby actors have shaped our built environment in ways that […]
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 09/10/2026
Google cut down more forest than my team have created in five years for a slop bot. #FuckAI
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 09/10/2026
Why host a data centre at all? Ketan Joshi argues the real competition in the AI race is who can best resist them, not who can build the most. The latest episode of the Cut Through podcast is live on all platforms now. #cutthroughpodcast
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 08/10/2026
‘If AI doesn’t deliver on its promise then we face a double blow to growth: because AI didn’t expand our productive capacity as hoped, and because other investments which might have didn’t take place.’ www.ft.com/content/bf40...
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/10/2026
I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:
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What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?
Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen stated that good journalism focuses on “Not the odds, but the stakes”. Speers is master of the odds: horserace political reporting that is all about politics, personalities and polls, and largely ignores consequences for the nation. #insiders #auspol
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 04/10/2026
The Coalition's climate policy is premised on the assertion that “Australia has done its bit”, as if Australia were not still the world’s third-largest exporter of fossil fuels, writes Anjali Sharma. trib.al/DcTaGgB
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The Coalition’s ‘chainsaw’ climate policy
I am no stranger to the spiral of doom that inevitably follows a skim of the morning headlines. Perhaps that is a burden this privilege of youth must carry – the emotion in the immediacy of the world’s crises. Even so, the headlines of Wednesday, September 23 packed a visceral punch.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Australia’s interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi” Yanis Varoufakis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi | Yanis Varoufakis
Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yanis Varoufakis: Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi | Yanis Varoufakis
Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We don’t need to panic about AI. We need to hold its creators accountable when things go wrong.
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We don’t need to panic about AI. We need to hold its creators accountable when things go wrong
If a chatbot prompt like ‘find Australian medicine statistics’ results in a website breach, the responsibility does not lie with a piece of code
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nicholas Gruen: "I think of our system of electoral democracy as a system of competitive disinformation. Each major party spins against its opponents lest their opponents spin more successfully against them. Witness innumerable deflations of left-sympathetic public opinion once the competitive...
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Josh Bornstein @joshbornstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Same grift, different bucket
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Santos paid zero company tax for 11th year in a row, ATO data shows
The latest corporate tax data released today by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) showed that once again, major gas producers are paying no company tax, and despite claims that changes to the Petroleum ...
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Bike Ottawa @bikeottawa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“The truth is that there is a war on walking, cycling, and transit that has made a one-hour city the norm.”
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the same week as Anderson is appearing there, CPAC Australia is rebranding as NatCon too. Did they have to pay for licensing to use the label? Know what NatCon is: it’s a northern hemisphere conference org promoting religio-ethnonationalism. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/30/c... #Auspol
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CPAC Australia is calling itself 'NatCon' this year. It may mean more than you think
Sure, it's short for "national conference". But CPAC Australia would be well aware it's also the name of another very prominent European conference for national conservatism.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🧵Australia’s power elites will have speeches from this rabidly pro-Israel event recycled as The Oz op/ed columns. Aussies will see the videos in their YT feed. Anderson is connecting #Auspol more closely to some of the world’s worst far right “intellectuals.” lucyham29.substack.com/p/why-does-i...
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Why does it matter than John Anderson AO is spending 7/10 on a stage in Jerusalem?
Former Deputy PM John Anderson is a “featured speaker” alongside the accused war criminal Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich and many other illiberal extremists at NatCon Jerusalem.
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨The Coalition's "MAGA arm" – billionaire-funded disinformation group Advance – has banned media from a public event featuring Senator Bridget McKenzie. Major questions for Coalition, follows One Nation's bans. Gina Rinehart biggest funder of both... theklaxon.com.au/gmvn
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Coalition's “MAGA arm” bans media - The Klaxon
Media has been barred from a “public” event featuring National Party Senate leader Bridget McKenzie hosted by far-right lobby group Advance.
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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Independent media once again reporting on the slippery slope to our democracy fracturing that everyone needs to know. #auspol
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 02/10/2026
A Northern Territory body with ZERO full-time staff is the de facto national regulator for online gambling. Last year, Australians lost $36 billion gambling. @justinedavismla.bsky.social tells @ebonybennett.bsky.social about this extraordinary situation on Follow the Money 🎧 theaus.in/4jhnKz9
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ICHTHYS project in the NT, two thirds owned by Japanese company INPEX (incl part owned by the Japanese govt). $52bn in income. $0 in company tax $0 in PRRT But apparently if we do a 25% export tax they might get upset so we can't do it because it is vital for our economy
Year	Total income $	Tax payable $	PRRT
2018-19	$802,110,813	$0	$0
2019-20	$6,378,812,227	$0	$0
2020-21	$6,106,449,154	$0	$0
2021-22	$7,281,757,071	$0	$0
2022-23	$11,973,514,434	$0	$0
2023-24	$10,661,856,034	$0	$0
2024-25	$172,738,325	$0	$0
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Vratislav Filler @vrataf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That article is interesting, as the main result are: - Motonormativity as "doublethink" confirmed. - Respondents paradoxically feel more supportive than their governments for both car travel and non-car travel. - Most people felt they support non-car mobility more than other people.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
David Shoebridge unloads on 2GB’s James Willis for distorting compassion for Palestinians facing genocide as “anger & hate” & fires back on claim he only targets Israel reminding him of his record “it may be convenient for u not to report that, but that’s u not doing your job”💥
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NZ Taxpayers Union is one of two Atlas Network thintanks in NZ …. The fossil fuel funded neolberal climate denial propaganda and state capture machine incl. Heritage Cato CEI Fraser IEA IPA etc
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Welcome! On page 5 of this doc: www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... There's a link to a list of all 550 or so 'think-tanks' comprising the global #AtlasNetwork bsky.app/profile/jere...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/10/2026
Nice @lizhicks.bsky.social piece theconversation.com/nsws-largest...
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NSW’s largest coal mine project is set to expand. Here’s what authorities got wrong about the trade-offs
A coal mine in the Hunter Valley region has sparked debate among politicians, environmental advocates and local residents.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/10/2026
"The impact of this would be locally severe but it could have been managed. The workforce could have been supported. The region could have been given money and backing to weather that storm" Georgina Woods is great on this too
theguardian.com
The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina Woods
There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/10/2026
Doing the math Australian media can't seem to do on Australia's massive new coal mine extension Support @youth4climate.bsky.social www.aycc.org.au
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
House prices falling by a percentage not seen in 40 years does not mean house prices have fallen to affordable levels - it is just that we have seen them increase so much year on year, that falls seem significant BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE HOUSING AFFORDABLE IT JUST MEANS THE HOUSING MARKET HAS BEEN BROKEN
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.
Table of Santos ltd company tax 2014-15 to 2024-25

Year	Total income	Company Tax
2014-15	$3,389,399,798	$0
2015-16	$3,476,002,729	$0
2016-17	$3,715,263,715	$0
2017-18	$3,498,043,596	$0
2018-19	$4,360,612,850	$0
2019-20	$5,013,931,702	$0
2020-21	$4,070,327,153	$0
2021-22	$4,746,037,784	$0
2022-23	$6,257,384,778	$0
2023-24	$8,210,276,022	$0
2024-25	$5,117,008,013	$0
Total	$51,854,288,140	$0
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hearing talk of a 15% fall in house prices. Yep. Will take us all the way back to Dec 2023 levels. You know, back when housing was so cheap.
Chart showing the index of dwelling prices and avge disposable income since 1970 (1970=100)

They moved together until 2000 (CGT discount introduced) 

Nowe incoem is at around 3,000 while dwelling prices are at 6,700
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Santos paid zero company tax for 11th year in a row, ATO data shows" Me for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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Santos paid zero company tax for 11th year in a row, ATO data shows
The latest corporate tax data released today by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) showed that once again, major gas producers are paying no company tax, and despite claims that changes to the Petroleum ...
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is enraging. So the ONLY thing available to counter inflation is to constantly ratchet up my mortgage repayments but they can’t do a thing about this shit in 11 years? I pay company tax, personal tax, council rates, exorbitant interest, every kind of fkn govt payment but look at these pricks.
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Random Sarah @random-sarah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Former RBA guy Philip Lowe blames government spending for rate rises & Anus runs with it. Yeah, this guy - Lowe, who joined the board of investment banking and asset management giant Magellan Financial, made the comments in a podcast published by the Institute of Public Affairs #auspol
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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’
Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses
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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A story of our time: Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’. Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits.
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Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’
Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.ettemedia.com/war-of-words... READ: An exclusive data analysis of 42 interviews conducted on ABC’s 7.30 on conflict zones — and what they tell us about the broadcaster's bias. (No paywall)
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Liz @mivoicetoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hugely valuable contribution examining the approach of ABC's 7.30 Report interviewing of various guests. Also deeply gratifying to read this analysis after being so appalled at the interview approach & sick of being gaslit that I abandoned watching ABC altogether www.ettemedia.com/war-of-words...
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War of words: How ABC 7.30’s interview approach differs widely by conflict
An exclusive data analysis of interviews conducted on ABC’s 7.30 — and what they tell us about the broadcaster's bias.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
I am so so so glad whenever someone mentions the fact that Amazon named an entire arena CLIMATE PLEDGE ARENA and then promptly stopped mentioning climate pledges ever again @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest is a great read: billmckibben.substack.com/p/amazon-crime
climate pledge arena
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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 28/09/2026
Scene staff reporter Eli Motycka was removed from the guest list for Peter Thiel's Nashville Antichrist lectures — and he's not the only journalist who was. 🧵
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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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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Tougher new standards”. Honestly. We’re threatening to “impose” a slightly different mandatory self-reporting requirement on AI companies that hack govt websites. If you were a human you’d be facing jail.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
5/ Rinehart puppet, Pauline Hanson gets "a “sexy” new private plane, worth more than $1.5m, to use in the lead-up to the next federal election" Rinehart staff, Adam Giles (CEO Hancock Agriculture & Ian Plimer (Exec Director Hancock Energy) also each gift Hanson $500K
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Pauline Hanson boasts about ‘sexy’ new private plane gifted by Gina Rinehart and $2m in donations
One Nation leader targets the Guardian in post, with video featuring novelty cheques and the unveiling of the new Cirrus G7 plane
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
3/ Rinehart puppet, Pauline Hanson fails to declare more free flights gifted by her mining billionaire benefactor, Gina Rinehart – this time through her agricultural company S Kidman and Co 5 undeclared flights in under 6 months⁉️ Thanks for keeping count Sarah Martin 🙏
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Pauline Hanson fails to properly declare more free flights from Gina Rinehart
Exclusive: One Nation leader updates register after questions from the Guardian to include multiple flights courtesy of Rinehart’s company
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
1/ A lil🧵collecting the illuminating public interest reporting of Pauline Hanson nemesis—"trashy journo" Sarah Martin Rinehart puppet, "Pauline Hanson & her chief of staff, James Ashby, flew to Florida on Gina Rinehart’s private jet in October & stayed at the mining magnate’s Palm Beach mansion"
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Pauline Hanson travelled to US on Gina Rinehart’s private jet to attend CPAC
Exclusive: One Nation senator travelled on mining magnate’s Gulfstream 700 in October and stayed at Rinehart’s US$66m Palm Beach mansion
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”
Perfect with photos of teal and Judy Vance. Quote from Peter Teal if you’re evil, you’re actually kind of good because at least you’re getting something done.
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 27/09/2026
Opinion | AI bosses are nothing but "fossil fuel cultists injecting methane gas directly into the heart of their machine god", writes Ketan Joshi. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Doomsday AI cultists aren't just good marketers — they're capturing governments
As soon as you realise the AI industry is packed with adherents to a cult of climate and fossil fuel dismissiveness, everything clicks into place.
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