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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 1h

In any other party there’d be no investigation.

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That’s not what I meant. I mean passing a motion stating it is meaningless as it won’t change anything that the Greens actually do.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Greens are pretty unique in the way that they let their regular members put forward motions. This one is pretty meaningless, and the leadership maybe should have killed it off, but the same media having hysterics now would have found some kind of “greens betray grassroots” argument to use.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Came here to say the exact same thing. Now no fossil fuel shills can complain about the Greens opposing this particular form of “zero carbon energy”.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But she’s not a 911 operator? They did do research then - so Australian!

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can’t try to restrict the rights of trans folk to “protect women” then do this…

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All those people who wanted to be journalists as kids, studied hard, got top marks at university, fought hard for a job at an old and respected newspaper, now doing exactly what they always dreamed of; writing puff pieces to fill column inches to protect the powerful from scrutiny.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wow, if so the singularity is really a disappointment.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Imagine Polanski had said something critical of paramedics, then a Muslim attacked an ambulance with a paramedic on board. Racists would be burning down whole neighbourhoods and media would be calling for Zack’s head. But a white guy did it after goading from farage so it’s “legitimate concerns”.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yep, all those fossil fuel projects you’ve approved, which will heat and acidify the ocean, show how into protecting it you are!

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well done! Can I ask what the formal study entailed? Impressed you got there in two years and would love to do something similar after languishing in language learning as an adult.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I fine it funny that the US can’t even provide hospitals, public transport or a liveable welfare system to its people because of how much it spends on the military, yet can still blow all that money in just six months of stupidity.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Love that you’re introducing the concept of Penny Wong to the rest of the world.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If it’s the “will of the people” it’s because Joyce and the rest of the political/media class keep telling us that our lives will magically improve if we get rid of migrants. How much of that “will” would remain if these people were honest about the fact that it will, in fact, make us all poorer.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Their songs haven’t aged a bit. They’re not singing about picking up girls or taking drugs so the fact that they’re being sung by some guys in their 60s now doesn’t really matter. Ditto my other fav musician David Byrne.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Don’t these people have jobs? Also, he’s got a nerve saying people might not feel safe…

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Is bet you £1000 that there’s more sexual assault and domestic violence charges in that crowd (we know about the boss’s kidnapping already) than in every asylum seeker in the country.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

They wear their masks on a train? The right are never allowed to complain about burqas again…

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I know that isn’t the worst aspect of this, that would be our complicity in US forever wars and making ourselves a target of whatever new enemy trump decides to make, but it’s a side point that shows the hypocrisy of lab/lib/on and the media.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There was a recent fake story that caused outrage about housing for “immigrants only”. However this is a real story of a bunch of foreigners who’ll come over and get free housing that we spent hundreds of millions to build, that locals are not allowed to live in, and the response is cricket noises.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

But they’ll tolerate the war in Iran itself causing giver prices? And all the future wars and natural disasters increasing the prices of a volatile commodity, when those things can’t remove access to sun and wind. Clever analysis!

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Love your work climate news, but where are you getting these numbers? Not disputing them, just want to know how reliable they are as I work towards the future for myself and my family.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yeah, I’ve lost interest in that guy, he’s just turned into a desperate Labor fan boy.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Exceptionally poor decision on Labor’s part to run a Woodside lobbyist as their candidate. Who better to show they have no intention of acting on climate change or “cost of living”. Of course ON won’t fix anything either, but the media worked hard to hide that they do Gina’s bidding, not yours.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Given that “western” countries are so neurotically obsessed with fear about non-white people crossing their borders, it’s not surprising the rest of the world figured they could weaponise this. The global hissy fit following Ceuta proved they were right. So expect much more of it in the future.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Changes I the timing of cherry blooming is an incredibly visible sign of climate change so you can see why he wouldn’t want that on display.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Labor’s candidate was a lobbyist for Woodside (a fact the ABC didn’t feel was worth mentioning when listing three mistakes). Do you think they’ll learn the lesson that people don’t want to vote for people who shill for polluting, tax dodging corporations? One can hope I guess…

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Exceptionally poor candidate choice by labor in a gas lobbyist. I hope this teaches them something but maybe that’s expecting too much,

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yeah, even before they caved here they’d never explained where these “data centres” were going to get their water from (ie it was going to come from the grid).

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Well the phycos in the NT gouvernement are trying to change that - they want to frack the earth and give away all their “abundant” groundwater to become the data centre capital of the world. Albo could stop them, but of course that would be doing too much for him.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Once again, what is the point of having @albomp.bsky.social as PM when he’s happy to let useless data centres pour CO2 into the atmosphere just as a Peter Dutton would be doing right now.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And I understand the comparison to ag, I’m an ag scientist and know the sector is responsible for 1/3 GHG emissions and terrible biodiversity impacts. But we need ag, so we need to fix it rather than ditch it. We don’t need “AI”, we can just solve all the problems it causes by getting rid of it.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Anger is justified. For decades, those of us concerned about the climate have worked hard to bring down power usage and use renewables for the rest. Now, out of nowhere, a product almost no one wants or needs has appeared to undo all that. See Aus illustration - 13% of all power in 10 years time!

abc.net.au

Data centres to use nearly as much power as every NSW and Victorian home by 2036

The rush of AI data centres is expected to put a larger burden on the electricity grid than previously estimated, with projects in development more than doubling in a year.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The party that “says what they mean”. Yet Farley voted in favour of the Greens gas tax because he didn’t have staffers to tell him what to do and says immigration is fine, until the party machine says otherwise. Like Joyce defending repossessing homes until staffers told him he didn’t believe that.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sounds like someone who deserves a 50% tax subsidy from the government.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I wonder why there’s no snow @news.abc.net.au? Do scientists have anything to say about how the climate might be changing? A shame you didn’t have room to mention that anywhere in your article (on which you don’t allow comments).

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Will she cover the infidelity (with a subordinate), alcoholism and how much his anti-renewables ideology is costing his electorate, or will she just ask him over and over “would you like to be deputy PM under Pauline”? Bet you $100 it’s the second one.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Because if they prepared their opponents would go “look how much less I would spend” and the media would say “yeah, you’re so more” and then they fold. But we have plenty of nukes, so we’re ok with preparing to blow people up, so something to be thankful for.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Why did we elect Dutton as PM? Imagine how much better things would be if @albomp.bsky.social had been re-elected last year with a huge majority…

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ahh yes, great to see “race traitor” in the headline of a once respected publication. This will definitely only lead to good things.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Saving this to share in a million online political arguments to come. Thank you.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

How bloody long are we going to be using fossil fuels to “bridge the gap”? Also, bridging the gap between fossil fuels and renewables with fossil fuels is not bridging the gap, it’s just continuing to use fossil fuels to placate the lobbyists until you can find a new excuse.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Let’s do 15 press conferences reminding everyone that we hate asylum seekers as much as farage does. That’ll solve this problem.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Good, no one in those countries apart from their weak “centrist” levers wants them there anyway. Sadly those same “leaders” will happily agree to whatever bullshit trump wants so they can pretend that these troops actually provide security.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Better ban barbecues, that’ll fix it.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We need worse housing so it will be cheaper. But the changes to investor subsidies are bad because they *checks notes* make houses cheaper.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Nuclear is reliable, unlike those terrible wind and solar generators that only work when conditions are right.” The media and most politicians.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

American companies can get away with anything if they say it’s to “compete against China”. Well, anything except building renewable energy.

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