David Tomkins 🦋

Muslims traumatised after right-wing attack on community dinner A Muslim community in Ballarat is left traumatised after a man barged into a community dinner allegedly throwing punches and yelling abuse.

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Anti Muslim abuse ? Move on please.
No arrest. Nice.
Can. you. imagine if he’d turned up a synagogue ?

Hope you’re proud @albomp.bsky.social
#auspol

Here’s my magical device that protects me from oil shocks.

Australia to provide military support to Gulf states Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirms the Australian Defence Force will deploy an E-7A Wedgetail aircraft to the Gulf to help protect and defend the region, providing long-range reconnaissance acti...

The slippery slope beckons

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If a bunch of out of touch boomers didn't rush everyone back to work instead of a hybrid model, the rise in gas prices wouldn't hurt as much.

The LNP’s phrase-banning law is wide open to constitutional attack. Is it a victory for the people, or a smart political play? | Anne Twomey By banning two political slogans outright, the government has exposed the law to a greater risk of being struck down as invalid

"By banning two political slogans outright, the government has exposed the law to a greater risk of being struck down as invalid" Anne Twomey
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Big Tobacco, Big Coal, Big Banks: Lobbyists charming our leaders Kooyong MP Monique Ryan on the thousands of lobbyists roaming the halls of Parliament House and how they influence decisions for us all.

There has been a marked increase in the number of lobbyists w access to Parliament House. Literally 1,000s move through the building, meeting politicians & staffers; often leaving little public trace of who they’ve spoken to & why.
#auspol #coal #climatecrisis www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

I've riding this bus for years. Climate collapse is not a far-off hypothetical. With the speedrun we're gunning now, mid-century is not unrealistic.

Look, we have to burn down the planet right now so we can build an AI smart enough to save the planet from burning!

Our electric bill gives the comparison of last year to this year's temperatures. We had an 11 degree F. increase...

Demand Woolworths & Coles stop selling salmon farmed in Macquarie Harbour. By removing Macquarie Harbour salmon from their shelves, Coles and Woolworths can send a clear signal: extinction is not an acceptable business practice.

Please sign if this is something that concerns you ... for all species affected by the risk of extinction for the sole purpose of higher profits ...

Keep in mind 100 companies are the drivers of most carbon emissions. Corporations & Billionaires have bribed and bullied the world’s governments and agencies into not meeting Paris Accord numbers. A Yale studies estimates with 73 Trillion dollars we could outfit every country w/ alternative energy.

Everyday billionaires wake up with the means to solve the climate crisis and CHOOSE not to. The idea that they would have to sacrifice some profits to switch to sustainably isn’t something they are willing to do. Instead build survival bunkers, spend $$ planning to go to space. They are psychopaths

400 years will put the earth’s average temperature at 15C above the pre-industrial level at our current rate of warming…

When do you expect the interglacial period will end?

Please do push this into the faces of all those climate deniers! Not that it will have any dramatic effect, but it might bring a little joy into the heart of whomever is doing the pushing!

Albanese’s policy on Iran makes us complicit in the collapse of international rules The Albanese government has stood by as the foundations of the international order were destroyed

Excellent by @emmashortis.bsky.social

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Lucifer has a point

Trump’s war on Iran is another reminder: renewable energy is national security The first thing I thought when I heard petrol prices were climbing was this: thankfully, that’s not really our problem anymore.That’s not because we’re rich or because inflation doesn’t matter. And it...

The first thing I thought when I heard petrol prices were climbing was this: thankfully, that’s not really our problem anymore, says Gregory Andrews.
That’s not because we’re rich or because inflation doesn’t matter.
#climatecrisis #renewableenergy #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/trump-s...

Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study - Carbon Brief An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...

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Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

I would just love to ask them what they based their expectations on.

www.ksl.com/article/5145...

There’s nothing more satisfying to Linda Bradburn than getting another household to go electric.
The Victorian retiree has electrified her home step by step over more than 15 years.
#climatecrisis #electric #auspol rewiringaustralia.org/blog/linda-b...

Australian gas producers reap windfalls as Iran war chokes global supply Santos, the country’s second-biggest listed oil and gas producer, finalised a deal with a commodities trader at more than double recent market rates.

We should be taxing the fuckers into the ground.

War profiteering used to be a bad thing…

www.afr.com/companies/en...

After the deluge: Australia’s wettest summer in a decade was also one of the hottest ever Some areas that recorded temperatures close to 50C in January received more rain in one week in February than all of last year

Dozens of heat and rain records were broken across south-east Australia over the past two months as the nation experienced its wettest summer in a decade, and one of the hottest ever – 1.1C above the 1961-1990 average.
#climatecrisis #weather #auspol www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

People just do not understand simple things like
We cannot make, or build fresh clean water
We cannot make or build fresh clean air

I hope mother nature kicks the shit out of mankind before the stupidity of mankind destroys the whole planet.

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

She helped design Australia’s aged care assessment tool – but now Lynda Henderson is too scared to use it Exclusive: Member of working group behind questionnaire had no idea it would eventually be underpinned by ‘ridiculously simplistic’ algorithm

“I have grave concerns about the use of algorithms and automation to make decisions about the complex individual care needs of older Australians,”
#agedcare #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

'Gobsmacked': threatened bird habitat cleared under Australia’s new nature laws Environmentalists have accused the Albanese Government of making a “mockery” of Australia’s new nature laws, saying they’re “gobsmacked” by its decision to greenlight the destruction of threatened bir...

"The federal environment department approved the Top End Pastoral Company to clear ~3,000 hectares of tropical savanna

1) without requiring an environmental assessment

2) despite the area being home to the endangered Red Goshawk & Gouldian Finch

3) to make way for cotton crops."

#VoteThemOut

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?