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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Seeing as I'm in sarcastic shout-out mode, I'll also give a big one to the rat that has died in an obscure part of my ceiling in the middle of a heatwave, leaving me to choose between opening the doors and windows and suffering the heat, or staying cool and suffering the smell.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Big shoutout to my next-door neighbour who is maximising the amount of legacy feed-in tarrif (90c/kWh) he gets from his 10kW rooftop solar system by cleaning it with two leaf blowers and a pressure washer running off a gen-set. Cannot hear myself think RN.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

There's a level of wealth above which you don't get happier, and there's a level of wealth above which you think physics no longer applies to you.

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Just a thought… but maybe let’s not have massive data centres sucking up water, gutsing on electricity and destroying the social fabric. Could be an option?

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Grattan Institute @grattaninstitute.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🤓 GRATTAN’S 2025 WONKS’ LIST 🤓 In addition to our Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List, our Wonks’ List highlights some of the year’s best technical policy reads. Here are our picks for 2025. buff.ly/YcFqGwm #auspol #ausecon

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Spicy take from a professor of economics, suggesting that the way to get power prices down is to build more of the most expensive form of electricity

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Happy World Energy Outlook day to all those who celebrate. Here's your annual reminder about what the different scenarios mean (journalists and sub-editors: looking at you in particular).

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A portrait to put in my attic, except instead of aging on my behalf it has severe grass pollen allergies

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ACCR @accr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Electricity demand is growing around the world but the growth in solar and wind was so strong it met 100% of the extra electricity demand, even helping drive a slight decline in coal and gas use. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Oh: - The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July. - China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period. By @akshatrathi.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance

China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/10/2025

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

On why Trump is wrong on climate, renewable energy, the next economic growth cycle, on powering data centres cost-efficiently, and on geo-economics. Very good by the FT‘s Gillian Tett. on.ft.com/3KkjVcU

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Wonder if Starmer will find room in his speech to acknowledge the objective fact a century of escalating climate impacts means global migration will massively increase. We either find a way to effectively and humanely manage that fact, rather than deny it, or things will get very dark very quickly.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

WATCH THIS: The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.

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Saturn Ion commercial

YouTube video by Eliyahu Biton

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Grattan Institute @grattaninstitute.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Learn what makes good public policy at our October ‘Changing public policy’ course. Grattan policy experts Peter Breadon and Trent Wiltshire will teach you how to communicate evidence and navigate reform blockages. Register now: buff.ly/QOXuUOX

A promotional graphic promoting the Changing public policy course, featuring pictures of the two speakers Peter Breadon and Trent Wiltshire.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"I saw the message on her son’s t-shirt: Always be kind. ...that word 'always,' on a boy’s chest in the middle of a city that has been pounded for three years, has to be there, as a reminder that ideals are ideals, and that they are part of reality." snyder.substack.com/p/always-be-...

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Always be kind

An unexpected wartime slogan

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 16/09/2025

NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly) 🧵quick thread www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/6

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

To journalists various: the issue is not whether the coalition tears itself apart over climate denialism… the issue is whether we do what we can to save our home. Stop reporting the goddam horse race.

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Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Climate Risk Assessment Report: 💀 400% increase in heat deaths 🔥 1m homes uninsurable by 2050 🥵$211 billion in lost wealth from reduced labour productivity. Uninsurable means unsellable, means ppl lose wealth, reduced tax revenue & economic recession for all www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... #auspol

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One million homes at 'very high risk' will be effectively uninsurable by 2050

One in 10 homes could be effectively uninsurable by 2050, while lost labour productivity to extreme weather could wipe $211 billion in household wealth, the Climate Risk Assessment warns, with tourism...

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Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

At what point are we going to realise that the wealth we will lose from reducing fossil fuel exports is trivial compared to the wealth we will lose from pumping all that CO2 into the atmosphere? Will it be too late by then? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... #aupol

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What happens to Australia when the world warms by 3C? It's revealed in this report

For the first time, the government has modelled the threats from climate change on Australia's future. What’s the point of a document like this, and can it help us avoid the worst-case scenarios?

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Helen Haines MP @helenhainesindi.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

These findings are alarming, but not surprising. Regional Australia is depending on strong climate action. The Government’s carbon emission targets must reflect the severity of the findings released yesterday. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

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First climate risk assessment finds 1.5m Australians at risk from sea level rise by 2050

One and a half million Australians are at risk from sea levels rising by 2050 unless climate change can be limited, Australia’s first national climate risk assessment warns.

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Tony Wood @tonyrwood.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The hard work of giving Australians a view into a future world of unchecked climate changes has been done by the Australia Climate Service. It reinforces the current world of floods and fires for many Australians. We must act on the science and the facts - www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...

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National Climate Risk Assessment

Learn about Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Re-upping this thread following the National Climate Risk Assessment and the latest LNP ructions. If you want to aspire to any leadership position in this country, you must have a serious, coherent plan to respond to climate change. That's table stakes.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

"Each year, nuclear adds as much net global capacity as renewables add every two days. Soaring renewables generate three times more global electricity than stagnant nuclear... …China added 197 times more solar and wind than nuclear capacity, at half the cost." www.utilitydive.com/news/nuclear...

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Nuclear power is failing, and AI can’t rescue it

Nuclear generation is expensive and slow to develop. Claims that past failures won’t recur have convinced politicians to socialize investments rejected by private capital markets.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Want to come and work with me and @tonyrwood.bsky.social ? Maybe you should be our next Deputy Program Director or Senior Associate - see job ad below. Applications close 14 September

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Want to come and work with me and @tonyrwood.bsky.social ? Maybe you should be our next Deputy Program Director or Senior Associate - see job ad below. Applications close 14 September

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I have now lived a long and full life, with a Republican Treasury Secretary saying that adding a national sales tax -- imposed on an odd assortment of goods -- *raises* economic growth. Can't wait to raise other taxes to raise growth further. Or to double tariffs so we can double growth.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Aug 26, 1965 - “Climatic Change appears to be underway” – the commencement speech that should have rocked the world Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee; "CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely” allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...

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“Climatic Change appears to be underway, in fact.” - the 1965 commencement speech that should have rocked the world. - All Our Yesterdays

Sixty years ago today, n Thursday August 26th 1965, Carl W. Borgmann stood in front of hundreds of young Americans in Knoxville. Borgmann, who was the director of the Ford Foundation’s Science and Eng...

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

NEW from me: Clean energy growth helped China’s CO2 emissions fall 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024. Power sector CO2 fell 3% as growth in solar power alone matched the rise in electricity demand.

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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Wrote about the impacts of the this quite tightening of the standard some years ago now (here: theconversation.com/sure-no-one-...) Just didn't foresee the bit about Gov entering agreements to keep large, old, plants in the mix to deal with it.

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Paul Austin @paulnaustin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Tax is the talk of the town today. Here’s Grattan Institute CEO Aruna Sathanapally’s speech to the Economic Reform Roundtable on ‘A Better Tax System’. #auspol #ausecon #wages #super #carbon #GST grattan.edu.au/news/a-bette...

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A better tax system - Grattan Institute

The budget is not sustainable. We’re burdening our children with unpaid bills and worse choices. It’s time for a mature debate on tax reform.

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Allegra Spender MP @allegraspender.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

After working for three years on tax reform, choosing just one big idea is like choosing your favourite child. But one idea I want to see on the agenda is a dual-income system of tax – a system that taxes labour and capital income on separate schedules.

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

"It doesn't work reliably, so just don't use it for anything, like, super important" is a wild thing to say about your own product

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Naomi 🐺 @naomiwolf.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

a specific skill I've developed over the past ~20 years is crafting responses to emails sent to me, but intended for that other Naomi Wolf

my reply:

personally, i'd recommend you follow the advice of your doctor. but what do i know, i'm just a random person you emailed. I have no more formal education around botox than the author Naomi Wolf, whose advice I assume you were actually seeking. but since you emailed me, my suggestion is that you listen to your kid's urologist, who is a trained medical professional, rather than seeking out medical advice from someone with an english degree and a history of making significant errors in her research.

best of luck!

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I wrote about the Productivity Commission's recommendations for net zero and cheaper energy for the Financial Review last week.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

How do you make the most expensive form of electricity even more expensive? Build it somewhere where the freight costs are $1 million/kg! Of course!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/07/2025

anti-doomer sentence of the day: "Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last" www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I enjoyed revisiting this classic from the Pig City era. Happy 50th birthday to Rocking Horse (it's been happily taking my money for nearly 40)

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

There is something so fundamentally telling with people who think that “reading a book” and “knowing what the plot is” is the same experience.

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