Tech for work, swimming for sanity, and doing my bit to fight for integrity in our politics. Also aaronsmith333 at the other place.
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Jun 5
I rarely put pen to paper, but this privileged experience was worth the exception.
Four days, a lot of walking, a few people I admire enormously, and several I do not.
It's all in here👇
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Aaron Smith retweeted
“Rabid dogs,” “soy,” “inner city pussies” - that’s a lot of words to say you’re upset she got asked to explain herself and couldn’t.
Did the question hurt her or you?
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Goal ! Scored by one of those migrants that Pauline Hanson wants to deport. Australia 1-0.
WOW!!!
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Interesting that AFR columnist Jennifer Hewitt argued at the same time that the media was trying to report #OneNation's antics.
She should start reading @GuardianAus.
On Pauline Hanson: Raf Epstein on #Insiders nails it - "the media hold her to a different standard."
Which is to say, no standard at all.
We've never had a detailed policy interview with Hanson. And a rare policy question sees Pauline unravel.
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On Pauline Hanson: Raf Epstein on #Insiders nails it - "the media hold her to a different standard."
Which is to say, no standard at all.
We've never had a detailed policy interview with Hanson. And a rare policy question sees Pauline unravel.
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If you read the FOI'ed emails and meeting notes, etc from the first robodebt decision, you can see that Brereton involved himself in everything, all the processes
At the last minute, he left the room when they were making the final decision and then told himself that that was "recusing himself" from it all
The man had zero self-awareness or understanding of public perceptions of propriety
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Some of the replies to this, a post that just presents data, are quite the journey.
Why are people so emotionally invested in coal?
It's such a strange hill.
Jun 13
4 coal stations. Same 90 day avg, 1 year apart.
The 2025 line rockets up after 6pm - that's where coal made its money.
In 2026 that peak is gone, flattened by batteries and wind. Rev down 30-40% in a single year.
Nobody's building coal in Aus again @mattjcan. It's over.
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Everything you champion makes the world a little worse.
The intolerance, the religiously motivated prejudice - these are the things we’re meant to leave behind.
We can be so much better than this, and I genuinely believe we will be.
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Partly by design and partly by very poor oversight from the former Att General, Mark Dreyfus, who seemed to just have allowed Brereton free reign to interpret things as he pleased. Early days require a tight leash
The NACC legislation is pretty broad, deliberately so - so it was always vulnerable to bad initial moulding in the wrong hands
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Darren can’t read a graph. Without that basic ability, it’s not possible to discuss the data with him.
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Populism, scapegoating, "othering" typically crystallise in isolated social circles.
We're built for connection - good or bad. Narrative, messaging, "politics": they all sit downstream of relationships.
The opposite of Othering isn't "sameing"; it's belonging.
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this is really interesting…
Jun 13
4 coal stations. Same 90 day avg, 1 year apart.
The 2025 line rockets up after 6pm - that's where coal made its money.
In 2026 that peak is gone, flattened by batteries and wind. Rev down 30-40% in a single year.
Nobody's building coal in Aus again @mattjcan. It's over.
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Jun 13
4 coal stations. Same 90 day avg, 1 year apart.
The 2025 line rockets up after 6pm - that's where coal made its money.
In 2026 that peak is gone, flattened by batteries and wind. Rev down 30-40% in a single year.
Nobody's building coal in Aus again @mattjcan. It's over.
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Jun 13
Batteries are killing coal.
Evening peak prices roughly halved and the spot revenue of the biggest coal generators in NSW and Queensland just fell 30-40% in a single year.
Pauline Hanson's coal dream is being killed by renewables.
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Jun 13
4 coal stations. Same 90 day avg, 1 year apart.
The 2025 line rockets up after 6pm - that's where coal made its money.
In 2026 that peak is gone, flattened by batteries and wind. Rev down 30-40% in a single year.
Nobody's building coal in Aus again @mattjcan. It's over.
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Jun 13
I'll never get tired of Lyle Shelton losing.
Jun 12
I’ve had a setback in court but it’s not over yet.
#NotGivingUp #MyLegalJourney #SetbackNotDefeat #CourtUpdate #StillFighting
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Jun 13
If your platform is attracting neo-Nazis, the problem isn't the neo-Nazis.
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Jun 13
Hey Pauline, while you’re at it, you should give Barnaby a screenshot of your actual housing confiscation policy too.
Explain it to him, and the rest of us too, because it actually makes zero sense.
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Jun 13
Everyone's replaying Barnaby's Permanent Resident stuff-up.
Media haven't asked the key question: what does One Nation's policy even achieve?
Foreign buyers are under 1% of purchases in Aus.
Got the gaffe, but missed the point of how useless One Nation's policy actually is.
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Australia is running out of diesel fuel for our farmers & industry due to Trump’s war and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is wasting precious fuel getting huge advertising trucks to drive aimlessly around big cities bitching about our elected Prime Minister. #auspol
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