Droppie3d ago
those of us paying attention have known this since the beginning

https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260528-our-flagship-climate-policy-is-safeguarding-fossil-fuels-not-the-climate

i remain as outraged now as those decades ago

#AusPol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #VoteGreens #VoteProgIndies #PHONkedinthehead #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance
Our flagship climate policy is safeguarding fossil fuels, not the climate

The Safeguard Mechanism was designed to hold Australia's 200-plus largest industrial polluters to account. But as Australia Institute analysis demonstrates, instead of driving genuine emissions reductions, the Mechanism has become something closer to a very lucrative permission slip for fossil fuels to keep polluting and expanding.

The Point
Show threadRaymondPierreL34d ago

@26pglt

Simply put, if the #Service is a #SocialBenefit widely available to Aus residents (in one sector or another such as #Health and #SocialSupport of any kind) then it should be a #PublicService #NotForProfit deliverable. No exceptions whatsoever. Anything else is plainly #StateCapture and #Theft and #Rorts IMO.

#AusPol

DroppieMay 21
but it does not matter

liebs n nuts can do nothing in the House, & in Senate also get defeated if Labs work with Greens & ProgIndies. as for the Electorate, voters are skewing younger & left coz of demographics + decades of being screwed by neoliberalism

#AusPol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #VoteGreens #VoteProgIndies #PHONkedinthehead #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

RE: https://mastodon.au/users/RenewEconomyRSSFeed/statuses/116611078119274884
RaymondPierreL3May 21

Not much in msm about the 1st Transitioning Conference in Santa Marta, Columbia. SO here is my last toot for the day (promisse).

“Still, Australia did sign the Belém Declaration. We are very good at agreeing to things, though not so good at doing them…So with that in mind, the real question is always what Australia does when it gets home. Apparently, what we do is open new gas exploration tenders.”

Read more:
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260512-through-the-fossil-fuel-looking-glass-from-santa-marta-to-australia

#AusPol #FossilFuelIndustries #StateCapture #StateTeft #TaxReform #GasExportTax #Japan #ChrisMinns #NSWPol
#SantaMarta #Columbia #Netherlands

Through the fossil fuel looking glass: from Santa Marta to Australia

Coming back from Santa Marta, where nations were planning a fossil fuel phase-out, to the Australia of new gas permits and Japan’s gas-fired diplomatic arm-twisting, is like stepping backward through the looking glass.

The Point
DroppieMay 19
#magamorons would be proud of this absolutely bonkers thing apparently still happening 😮🤯🙄🤦‍♀️

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/20/csiro-job-cuts-climate-australia-projections-to-global-reports

i simply cant!

🤬😭

#AusPol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #VoteGreens #VoteProgIndies #PHONkedinthehead #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance #csiro
‘Foolish’ CSIRO job cuts will mean Australia unable to provide climate projections to global reports, scientists warn

Exclusive: Science agency is planning to sack a third of the team working on the national climate model, sources say

The Guardian
quackademicMay 16

Or we could turn away & maintain plunder for as long as possible while the planet burns.

#governance #StateCapture #exploitation #plunder

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/16/who-should-declare-climate-crisis-global-public-health-emergency-experts-say?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts tell WHO

Exclusive: Commission says alert would trigger coordinated international response that could help avoid millions dying

The Guardian
Show threadRaymondPierreL3May 15

@dyckron
#NeoLiberals will do what neoliberals do… sell the Sate to private enterprise. They’re such #Grifting hypocrites, because I refuse to believe that they do not know that #StateCapture is harmful to society.

#Privatisation has never, in written history, benefited society and only leads to degradation of services and eventual parlous state requiring public bailouts… meanwhile #TheRich have sucked all the $$$ out of it in the process. This is a familiar merry-go-round, seen before, seeing it again, and unless things change we’ll see it again… the great golden goose that never fails to deliver to the top end of town.

RaymondPierreL3May 13

Some home truths about the #Labor govt (and the two party duopoly by association) from #GregJerich writing for deepcutnews-dot-com this time — it really doesn’t matter who he writes for, The Point , The Guardian or here, he’s such a clear and insightful economic analyst everywhere he appears.

“The Labor Party finally saw the need to actually do things, but it remains wedded to the view that fiscal responsibility and hard choices are needed.”

https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/people-with-disabilities-the-biggest

#Budget #AusPol #Labor #Neoliberalism #Howardism #StateCapture

People with disabilities the biggest losers in budget – Greg Jericho

And profitable companies are the big winners.

Deepcut News
Show threadRaymondPierreL3May 13
@randahl
The pig is turning the office of POTUS into a corporate enterprise for himself and his cronies… and the US public sit on their arses and accept this overt #StateCapture as if it’s going to be great for them. It took less for the French to take to streets, armed and angry, to depose their King. The #US #King is no less vulnerable. What’s wrong with you #America ?
RaymondPierreL3May 12

What is #AlboPM up to…? Richard Denniss has some answer, and a warning for him, here:

“It was no accident that Labor waited until after the 2025 election to announce its support for the massive North West Shelf gas project, just as it was no accident that Labor waited until after the 2022 election to announce $1.9 billion worth of taxpayer subsidies for the Middle Arm gas project in Darwin. Labor keeps betting that voters will forgive and forget their support for fossil fuels expansion, but while that might work nationwide, it’s far less likely to work in the inner-city seats Labor is hanging on to by the skin of their teeth.”

Link:
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260511-albo-is-sacrificing-inner-city-labor-seats-but-for-what

#AusPol #FossilFuelIndustries #LaborValuesGone #Antifa #CliimateAction #PocketedPoliticians #StateCapture

Albo is sacrificing inner-city Labor seats, but for what?

Ever since the Liberals and Nationals split and reunited twice, the combined vote for the Coalition parties has collapsed, and support for One Nation has surged. But, it’s not just the Coalition whose once safe seats are no longer safe.

The Point