Rob Phair

Rural generalist doctor. #ClimateAction @RuralDocsVIC. @ACRRM. @artsunimelb. 🇷🇺 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 speaker. Views my own. RTs ≠ endorsements. 🚲🤹‍♂️ 🇺🇦

[Rob Phair @robphair]

Domestic wood heaters contribute to the deaths of 100’s of Victorians every year.

After 3 years, ⁦@VicGovAu⁩ still has not responded to the findings of its own inquiry into the #health impacts of #AirPollution.

⁦@Steve_Dimo⁩ & ⁦@JacintaAllanMP⁩, where are you?

[Misinformation Fact Checker. @MisinfoFact]

In a 2017 ABC Insiders interview, Pauline Hanson described Vladimir Putin as a "strong" and "patriotic" leader. When questioned about Russia's role in the MH17 tragedy, she disputed the evidence and said her priority was Australian domestic issues, not foreign affairs. #auspol

[Misinformation Fact Checker. @MisinfoFact]

Malcolm Roberts' claims that "15-minute cities" are part of a globalist plot to restrict people's movement.

In reality, 15-minute cities are an urban planning concept designed to create more walkable communities, reduce car dependency and improve quality of life.

#auspol

[Rob Phair @robphair]

@tomio_cz How much is #Russia paying for your fervent support?

[Rob Phair @robphair]

“I don’t like it” #OneNation #auspol #Straya

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Can someone “please explain” to One Nation, the difference between a slogan and a fully costed and economically modelled policy. They seem to not understand the difference.

While you’re at it; perhaps also explain that an entire platform built around nothing but random, indiscriminate cuts to government spending without any meaningful evidence of inefficiency beyond “I don’t like it” and without any associated plan to replace essential services is not going to “make Australia great” (again)…

[Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs]

Leaked chats and documents showcase the Russian presidential administration’s role in false-flag vandalism attacks and election interference campaigns in Europe and beyond. @OCCRP @DelfiEE @VSquare_Project https://t.co/pQXhFSUWZ9

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Roy Morgan
One Nation fell 9 points over two weeks:
31.5% to 22.5%

Beautiful NPC address Pauline 🙌

Lots of ppl asking how we “combat the ‘rise’ of One Nation” (ie two good polls)

Answer: Just let her keep talking

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

One Nation will tell you Pauline Hanson is the only one fighting for them. “Australians first.” The whole MAGA-pitch. Here's who she's spent her life fighting against:
• Aboriginal ppl— opposed Native Title and Welcome to Country; wants to abolish the National Indigenous Australians Agency to “save” $12.5B; her 2020 “Close the Gap” speech called Aboriginal parents lazy & negligent
- Nurses & aged care workers — $20,000–$34,000 worse off under Hanson. Called nurses overpaid
. Immigrants & refugees — wants to deport 75,000 “illegal migrants,” withdraw from the UN Refugee Convention, cut immigration to a 130,000 visa cap, with no economic modelling on the cost to Aust,
• Public schools — voted almost always against incr funding for public schools, incl cuts that stripped support from students with disability
• Teachers — pushed a narrative schools have “poor academic standards” & a lot of teachers can’t read & write properly.
• Students with disability — said they don't belong in mainstream classrooms because they're “disruptive”
• Welfare recipients— supported mandatory drug testing for recipients, & when a senator opposed it, publicly used that senator's son's drug addiction against her
• Welfare recipients broadly — $90B spending-cut plan targets the NDIS, Medicare & welfare payments, with no independently costed detail on how or any alternative method to support these vulnerable groups,
• Disabled Australians— wants to scrap wheelchair-access requirements for new homes
- Trans Australians — called it a “militant force” & “subversive transgender insurgency” that “must be dismantled; said trans “propaganda” was being imposed on children in schools. Trans Australians make up 1% of the pop’n.
• Childcare workers —questioned why they need qualifications, asking why centres need “people with some sort of degree to look after a child”
• Families /childcare access — voted consistently against incr childcare support, called the system “completely out of control”
• Asian-Australians — infamous 1996 maiden speech claiming we are being, “swamped by Asians”
• Muslim Australians — Senate burqa stunt got her suspended by Parliament, called for a Muslim immigration ban, said in 2026 there are no “good” Muslims
• African-Australian communities — pushed an “African gang” rhetoric against the actual data
• LGBTQ+ Australians — opposed marriage equality
• Domestic violence victims — repeatedly claimed women lie about abuse to win family court cases
• Women's reproductive rights — pushes to roll back abortion access nationally
• Women's pay / parental leave — dismissed the gender pay gap & said women shouldn't be paid on parental leave because “they're not at work”
- pledged to sack the Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Human Rights Commission
• Rape victims — kept convicted rapist Sean Black on staff for years & defended it
• Working Australians — opposed the minimum wage rise & tax break for low-paid workers, while taking a $100k pay rise
• Casual workers; voted no to same job, same pay
• Coal miners: a deal with the LNP cost mineworkers $16M in entitlements
• Pensioners;opposed pension increases
• Renters / home buyers; voted almost always against incr housing affordability
• Journalists — banned the ABC, voted consistently to cut ABC/SBS funding, called a reporter “trashy”
- Australians who rely on global health & scientific cooperation —wants to withdraw Australia from the WHO & the UN, abolished the TGA in her spending plan, rejects the IPCC’s climate science consensus, and wants to scrap net zero and the Department of Climate Change

So; yes, Hanson is “Australia first” — as long as you're not:
Aboriginal,
a nurse,
an aged care worker,
a public school student,
a teacher,
disabled,
rely on welfare,
in childcare,
Asian,
Muslim,
African,
gay,
transgender,
a survivor of abuse,
a woman,
a worker,
a pensioner, a
renter,
a journalist, or
someone who trusts science

So who, exactly, is she fighting for?

[Dr. Serge Zaka (Dr. Zarge) @SergeZaka]

Cette animation est saisissante. Elle montre, en seulement quelques secondes, l'accélération spectaculaire de la fréquence des vagues de chaleur au cours des 126 dernières années en France.

Au cours des 10 dernières années (2017–2026), la France a connu 18 vagues de chaleur. À titre de comparaison, le siècle dernier en comptait en moyenne seulement 3 par décennie.

En un siècle, la fréquence des vagues de chaleur a donc été multipliée par 6. Et la nouvelle se prépare déjà pour la semaine prochaine !

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

1) It’s *literally* your job to regulate this platform.

2) If you can’t, what does that mean? Tell us.

3) The Dept of Culture is not ‘your’ department, it’s ours. You’re its temporary custodian

5) But Facebook is ok? Really?

[Peter Gardner @PeterDGardner]

Thin white strips on brown slopes: Manufactured ski seasons are fuelling the climate problem https://t.co/fNLqMIE78h

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Wer auf die BILD-Kampagne hereingefallen ist und noch eine Öl- oder Gasheizung gekauft hat, der dürfte für die steigenden Kosten am Ende kräftig draufzahlen. Und wir alle leiden unter Folgen der zunehmenden Emissionen.

[Rob Phair @robphair]

@clement_molin Viens nous rejoindre sur B-sky, STP!

[Clément Molin @clement_molin]

Dans une des directions du front, les ukrainiens ont repris d'importants territoires depuis plus d'un mois et demi, libérant au passage plusieurs villages.

Nous attendons l'actualisation de DeepState pour ne pas révéler l'OPSEC, mais environ 50km2 sous contrôle russe (depuis plus d'un an) sont désormais sous contrôle ukrainien.

Dans cette direction, les russes n'ont publiées que 2 vidéos en juin (qui montrent la progression ukrainienne) et tentent de masquer l'information le plus possible. Pourtant, l'aviation russe a largué environ 75 bombes guidées FAB sur un vaste périmètre qui était sous contrôle russe.

La contre-attaque en cours qui est passée complètement sous les radars témoigne de la capacité des ukrainiens à créer une zone d'interdiction avec leurs drones tout en progressant en limitant les pertes (sinon il y aurait eu des vidéos russes), d'autant que l'offensive a débuté par une attaque mécanisée, ce qui prouve que les blindés ne sont pas obsolètes.

J'espère que l'actualisation officielle me permettra de développer un peu plus prochainement car l'opération est autant importante pour sa localisation que par la manière dont elle est réalisée, un deuxième exemple du type dans le cadre de la guerre des drones après Pokrovsk'e en février.

[Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @FriendsBats]

#GunaiKurnaiCountry Grey-headed flying foxes are called an ‘umbrella species’, because so many plants and animals live under their work. Their job is forest building and they are a keystone species in the ecology of east coast forests

[David Osmond @DavidOsmond8]

Australia's main electricity grid, the NEM, has long had flexible gas and hydro to help manage the highly variable supply-demand balance.
Now storage (mostly batteries) is rapidly growing & will soon be the main source of flexible supply.

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Heavy-duty electric trucks are rapidly destroying oil demand in China, and they're now coming to Europe
>Octopus Energy and CATL JV to build 30 mega-hubs by 2035 to support more than 300,000 e-trucks: Fresh batteries in under 5 minutes, faster than filling up a dirty diesel tank
>That's billions of liters of diesel wiped out in Europe each year
>In May 2026, sales of e-trucks in China surged 104% y-on-y to 30,800 units in 1 month
>In 2025, China registered 231,000 electrified heavy trucks, up 182% y-on-y
>Clean trucks are now at a 40.88% market share of all new heavy trucks sold in China - and cut annual operating expenses by $22,000 to $37,000 per vehicle
>China also just announced a Heavy-Duty Truck Master Plan: Target of 1.6m new e-trucks by 2030, powered by 30,000 kilometers of zero-carbon highway freight corridors across key national expressways, backed by 3,000 dedicated truck charging and battery-swap stations. Talk about an Electro-Shield
>As an added bonus, every truck can be turned into a virtual power plan, charging electricity when it's cheapest and discharging it, if idle, when it's expensive

Road freight has been one of the single largest cash cows for the oil industry globally. Those days are soon over.

Wires chewing pipelines

https://t.co/bvMHJJRPgt

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

This argument that the EU can do very little to halt climate change so they should focus (just) on adaptation is actually one of the documented “discourses of climate delay” that climate dismissives use to argue against global efforts to phase out fossil fuels.

[Rob Phair @robphair]

#Russia

[Kristi Raik @KristiRaik]

Will Russia escalate by attacking a NATO country, usually assumed to be a Baltic state? The question has come up in many conferences and discussions I’ve attended during the past months. Often the debate leaves many misperceptions to be corrected. Some points below 1/

[Melissa Sweet @MelissaSweetDr]

“The climate crisis is no longer a distant threat; it is a stark reality, and its most immediate and lethal manifestation is extreme heat,” the WHO Regional Director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, says

[Melissa Sweet @MelissaSweetDr]

#JournalismFail - @abcnews report on extreme heat in Europe tonight - not a single mention of #ClimateCrisis
#AusPol
#PublicHealth