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Simon St Hill

@simonsthill.bsky.social
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Engineer, climate activist, volunteer & runner. No DM's unless I know you irl please.

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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No ebikes should be illegal. Regulated yes, eg who can ride, etc.
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Do people realise when you use a thermal power plant (coal) to power a data centre it uses a minimum of 4 x the water compared with a data centre powered by renewables? It's just thermodynamics #auspol #carnot
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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The AFL is the home of misogyny and racism. Scandal after scandal - the old "few bad apples" excuse. Wake up AFL it's systemic. We don't see this in our swimming team, or our aths team, why is it always AFL? ( Won't be invited to the Brownlow 🤦‍♂️) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
AFL boss says suspended Swans will not be invited to Brownlow ceremony
AFL boss Andrew Dillon speaks to the media about the Sydney Swans scandal, saying "the actions of a few don't define the actions of the entire industry".
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What amazes me is that having connected to the wholesale power prices. Electricity is close to free, and the bulk of the costs are from the transmission companies. #nem #powerprices
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/07/2026
Some really encouraging Senate polls… 📍Georgia 🔵 Jon Ossoff: 56% 🔴 Mike Collins: 43% 📍North Carolina 🔵 Roy Cooper: 53% 🔴 Michael Whatley: 44% 📍Ohio 🔵 Sherrod Brown: 53% 🔴 Jon Husted: 45% 📍Iowa 🔵 Josh Turek: 50% 🔴 Ashley Hinson: 46% Keep organizing. Keep fighting.
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
80% of Australians support a complete ban on gambling advertising. It’s time the government got on board. Join the campaign today to call on the federal government to protect young Australians from the predatory gambling industry and free our feeds from gambling ads.
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The best argument against AUKUS without ever mentioning AUKUS pca.st/episode/ee1d...
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How Trump Is Weaponising AI and Martial Arts at the White House
Has Britain become a “vassal” state, dangerously dependent on the US for our most vital national security capabilities? What does Trump’s martial arts birthday event on the White House lawn tell us…
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Hawthorn is lucky to have Shima Izuki and Kew Sophie Torney, as strong independent candidates.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18/05/2026
“It seems to be entirely lost on the government . . . that Australia’s natural gas does NOT belong to them. "Australia's natural gas resource belongs to ALL Australians." – Andrew Wilkie MP ✍️ Sign to support a 25% gas export tax ➡️ theaus.in/4eNfW5P
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Being attacked by the Prime Minster should not be this fun. Cripes Albanese, at least get some facts. (Or at least read your own Budget Papers!)
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/05/2026
“You know why the Norwegians charge their kids nothing to go to university? “Because they tax the gas industry and they fund public services.” – Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO of The Australia Institute ✍ Sign to support a 25% tax on all Australian gas exports ➡️ theaus.in/3R78MQ4
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Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Australia, your Prime Minister has gone full gas shill. Here's the transcript...ON HIS OWN WEBSITE. www.pm.gov.au/media/radio-...
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
All this chatter about CGT affecting house prices. I am old enough to remember when there was ZERO CGT on an asset held for more than 1 year. When I plot it out, CGT has not caused the house price escalation. There are basically 3 tax era's 0 CGT, indexed, and 50% #Auspol
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Says everything you need to know about Australia 😂 (Harbour big 🤔 Yep Sydney) Profits subpar 🤔 um gas tax etc.)
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 04/05/2026
Think back to 2010, on the 2nd of May... Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is announcing a new Resources Super Profits Tax. Now, fifteen years after the Resources Super Profits Tax was abandoned, a new resources tax debate is raging. Read the full piece on The Point: theaus.in/3PjvSlV
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Sign the greens open letter to the PM to get this gas taxed properly #auspol greens.org.au/campaigns/ga...
greens.org.au
Gas Tax | The Australian Greens
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Tbh Labor spending its huge political capital to protect the gas industry wasn't on my 2026 bingo card. Yet here we are. #auspol
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
C'mon Albo, you sound like you work for a gas company #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
abc.net.au
Albanese poised to kill off move to increase taxes on gas giants
The government will not increase taxes on gas giants in next month's budget, echoing the industry's argument that exporters are already paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes each year.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Ed Husic calls out Japan’s hypocrisy of resisting gas export taxes while pocketing $40B in energy import taxes. “They import it, collect tax revenue, & make money reselling gas they’re not using themselves.”💥 Australia’s resources, Japan’s revenue. This has to change. #auspol
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 17/04/2026
“When you say things like… we pay more tax on beer than we tax the fossil fuel industry for extracting all this wealth from the land and simply shipping it over as if it belongs to them. “This is brilliant.” - @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social ✍️ Support a 25% gas export tax: theaus.in/485Pi3V
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Onya Anwar www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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The world faces a grim reality, even if Trump exists in a different one
The world is stuck watching a performative series of announcements about meetings that could, may, will happen, involving a president not dealing with the reality that he is in a weak and confused bar...
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Still not a lot of traffic. Red boats are tankers.
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
One nation (fake battler party) backs big gas over every day Aussies 🤦‍♂️ #auspol
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
How much of a loser do you have to be as a president that you have to make an address to the nation about your war of choice on the day that the boldest space mission in over 5 decades launches 🤦‍♂️
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Every 💙 voter needs to get out an knock on doors
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I just saw the MTC play about the Westgate bridge disaster. It was superb. As an engineer it took me to the site and tragedy. #mtc www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-ti...
mtc.com.au
West Gate
An emotionally charged depiction of the human cost of Australia’s worst industrial disaster – the West Gate Bridge collapse of 1970, featuring a stellar cast of cult screen favourites.
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I thought to myself what would be the easiest way to electrify heavy transport - put batteries and motors in every trailer to assist the truck - did a web search and people are well down this path. There are a few regulatory hurdles but this is a no brainer #Auspol #tranaport vemotion.com.au
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Homepage - VE Motion
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
As a former engineer in the automotive industry many of us looked at Australia's advantages ( farming) and thought rather than close the government should assist us to pivot. This is a winner we need to pick
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Just remember that when you go to the pump and pay $1 a litre more than a month ago it's war profiteering. They dress it up as "Supply and Demand" but if this happened for any other commodity there would be outrage. The fossil fuel industry gets away with this kind of thing constantly
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Tonight Carlton and the Swans will kick off the third AFL season since the Murphy report unanimously recommended a comprehensive ban on gambling ads. Once again, our screens and stadia will be polluted with wall-to-wall gambling advertising, a normalised part of sporting culture in Australia.
thenewdaily.com.au
Its time for Parliament to recognise gambling's damage to health
With gambling advertising a normalised part of footy culture, it's time to shed light on an issue the government is unwilling to address.
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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We don't hаtе russіа enough…
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Australians are the world’s biggest losers when it comes to gambling. It’s a predatory system - the industry’s business model depends on people losing. What makes it even more disturbing is the ongoing acceptance of donations, gifts & perks from gambling companies by some MPs & Senators.
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Rebel with a Cause @rebelwithacause2.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Says the guy who auctioned off little girls Says the guy who trafficked little girls Says the guy who raped little girls Voter cheating, or electoral fraud, is extremely rare in the USA Only 39 cases of voter fraud were ID'd in a recent election, a mere 0.000039% of over 100 million ballots cast
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It's quite long but well worth the watch
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Right now, the Government is starving medical research of full funding, even as it claims that science and research are national priorities. If our leaders truly value science as much as they say, then they must back their words with action—and fund it properly. Join the campaign!
moniqueryan.com.au
Medical Research Matters
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Climate Crisis Info & Progressive Politics (by Bryan Godbe) @bryangodbe.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Toyota has repeatedly ranked as one of the strongest funders of pro-pollution, anti-EV, and climate denying propaganda in the world, a new report reveals its growing interest in seeding anti-science attitudes in US Congress, through political bribes to climate deniers. electrek.co/2025/01/14/t...
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Toyota found to be largest auto industry funder of climate deniers in US
A new report shows Toyota donated more money to climate denying Congressional candidates than other automakers, and the gap is increasing.
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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The share of the population living in extreme poverty is now higher in the United States than in China. When will more people realise that the US is only a democracy in name, not in action? It merely dances to the tune of the top 1%.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 22/11/2025
Does he pay anyone??
Former President Donald Trump creepily smiling in front of a dark background with the text: Thousands of air traffic controllers left out of Trump's shutdown bonus checks
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
In a report released today, the AEC again confirms that it supports net zero 'on the premise that the least cost, lowest impact pathway is an energy system dominated by renewables.
energycouncil.com.au
Affordability Key to Successful Energy Transition: Report
Affordability is the key to ensuring public confidence and ongoing community support for the energy transition, which is now delicately balanced, according to the Chief Executive Officers of Australia...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Dave The Artist @coloradofaux.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
🎯🎯
THIS IS THE
GOVERNMENT
THE FOUNDERS WARNED US ABOUT
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Simon St Hill @simonsthill.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
To be honest I am amazed at how powerless US federal workers are. They have to work without pay. If they strike they are sacked and black banned for life. This is just wrong. Forced to work without pay is slavery. If they eventually get paid there is no penalty on the govt for missing payments
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
📢 @climate200.bsky.social launches: The Canavan Climate Trust we're cataloguing the stupidest statements by climate denying Nats. 👇 all proceeds → airing ads highlighting Nats' unhinged comments in @liberalaus.bsky.social marginal seats next election! www.climate200.com.au/campaign/the...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Early voting in the NYC mayoral election begins TODAY. If you're a New Yorker, I urge you to vote for Zohran Mamdani — the only candidate who will stand up to the oligarchy and fight for working people. Listen to his inspiring words from primary night.
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I love ❤️ this so much.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
ICYMI — @gallego.senate.gov : "The only reason Adelita Grijalva is not being sworn in right now is because he wants to protect whatever is in those files. Arizona does not have a congresswoman right now, during flooding, because Speaker Johnson is covering for pedophiles."
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