Dad, nature lover. Media & Comms @Market_Forces, ex IFRC, Red Cross, ABC, SBS. Love photos, film, waves, forests, mountains. Live on Wurundjeri Kulin Country.
Melbourne, Australia
Joined April 2011
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Antony Balmain retweeted
El Niño is ramping up. Australia faces $6 billion/pa in bushfire damages. 15,000+ Victorians are hospitalised every year from heat stress now.
It's hard to believe @AustralianSuper could reinvest in @WhitehavenCoal to become its biggest backer. And yet. thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2…
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Spotted on @FT and @ecobusinesscom! 👀 Singapore banks say they're committed to "no new coal*" — but what does the fine print say?
UOB, @dbsbank and @OCBCBank: Close the loopholes and cut finance for companies using coal. #SIEW2026
Email the banks ➡️ marketforces.org.au/campaign…
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After 5 years of study, WA's independent environmental watchdog found Woodside's Browse gas project was an unacceptable environmental risk on multiple grounds.
Read the confidential 2023 documents obtained by Boiling Cold in my story in The Guardian.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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The second episode of our new podcast, Climate Biz Matters, is out now! We talk super fund smoke screens and how members are making sure their retirement savings are being used to foster a cleaner and safer future.
Find it on @ApplePodcasts @Spotify @YouTube and more. marketforces.org.au/news/pod… #Climate #auspol #Podcasts
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MEDIA RELEASE: Economists and major international investors have roasted APA Group, for its planned pipeline enabling gas fracking in the Beetaloo Basin, Northern Territory, undermining the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Customers, shareholders and concerned community members have turned out today to send a message to ANZ’s decision makers: Don’t Frack the Outback! 📢 #ClimateAction 1/5
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Israelis mislead Royal Commission into Antisemitism - accuse MWM of harassment.
@Wendy_Bacon investigates CAM Summit and Israel lobby in Australia
#auspol
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🎧 LISTEN NOW 🎧 In case you missed it, the first episode of our new podcast is out now – find it on @ApplePodcasts, @Spotify, @YouTube and more. marketforces.org.au/news/pod… #Climate #auspol #Podcasts
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Today @AustralianSuper has woken up to a strong warning in the @smh — as leading climate, nature and public policy organisations urge the fund to put its members first and stop backing Whitehaven’s new coal mines.
Sign the open letter: australiansuperpolluter.com/
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What @AustralianSuper doesn’t want you to know: it’s the #1 shareholder in @WhitehavenCoal, a company with the biggest coal expansion plans in Australia. 🙃
But this means AustralianSuper has influence. Let’s make the fund use it. 👉 australiansuperpolluter.com/
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Neoliberalism has never worked where it’s been tried, but the rich love it so it’s not going anywhere.
Listen here or wherever you listen to your podcasts! ⤵️
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Buy Richard’s latest Vantage Point essay here! ⤵️
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Antony Balmain retweeted
It’s a con. It’s always been a con.
“Australians must understand that the purpose of our mind-boggling expenditure to acquire nuclear submarines is not to defend the continent of Australia but the American homeland.”
The great AUKUS deception: Australia pays to defend America pearlsandirritations.com/pos…
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This is huge. In a landmark ruling, the High Court has found planning authorities are required to consider the emissions caused by burning fossil fuels overseas – not just emissions from mining coal, oil and gas – when approving projects. #auspol abc.net.au/news/2026-10-07/m…
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You can see why the major parties voted against a Duty of Care to young people and future generations.
Climate scientists and the International Energy Agency are clear - we have enough coal and gas for the transition and cannot keep expanding them without damaging the people and places we love.
This is tragically short sighted and we’ll pay the price in the future. We can do better here in 🇦🇺 and push for more global action.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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An update to Google Maps reveals the extent of devastation deliberately caused by Israel during the three-year Gaza war. They also show how the territory’s 2 million inhabitants are now forced to live. trib.al/Bae13ap
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DOCUMENTS: AUSTRALIA’S KNOWING SILENCE TO PLANS FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING OF GAZA
@DeclassifiedAus’s FOI sleuth, Kellie Tranter, reveals internal Foreign Affairs documents showing the extent of Australian government knowledge of our closest ally’s complicity with Israel’s intentions of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
declassifiedaus.org/2025/09/…
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Tasmanian Aboriginal elder Aunty Patsy Cameron passed on this morning, aged 79. At a time when people wear identity politics like a suit of armour, Patsy wore no armour at all. Calm, wise & kind, she was a national treasure who embodied reconciliation.
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“The economics are flawed, but the climate cost of this pipeline is even worse: it would unlock decades of fracking from one of the world’s biggest gas developments mainly for export, when the science says new fossil fuel production must be slashed.”
reneweconomy.com.au/cost-of-… @renew_economy
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Alan Kohler today on failure to curb global warming...
"One of the key reasons for that failure has been the cynical opposition & denial by Rupert Murdoch & his media companies in order to make money, which has meant that the issue became a totem of right-wing politics" #auspol
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61% of the world’s bird species have declining populations.
Birds are indicators of planetary health. Their decline is a warning about the living systems we all depend on.
We need to listen - and act.
Read the latest @BirdLife_News here.👇🏽 lyrebirddreaming.com/post/se…
