JoanStaples

Academic and Environmentalist. Writing on NGOs and Democracy.

[Bill Hare @BillHareClimate]

Massive expansion of oil and gas production threatens to bust Paris Agreement goals and completely undermine efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

The Australian government is making decisions that support development of new, very carbon intensive gas fields https://t.co/AU1dZDSlqo

[Nic Maclellan @MaclellanNic]

Front page expose from The Age and 60 Minutes, on an investigation into corruption allegations around Australia’s offshore detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island. But from the beginning of the so-called Pacific Solution, Australian officials knew what was happening. THREAD

[JoanStaples @StaplesJoan]

@KosSamaras Tassie always hard for mainland pollsters to understand. Don’t presume that oldies in TAS will vote conservatively and the recent changes to Hare Clark voting system will favour Greens, JLN and any high profile independents.

[JoanStaples @StaplesJoan]

@our_yesterdays @BillHareClimate @sianprior I relied on CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Physics for all my information.They were international leaders on climate change for decades before 1988 - people like Barrie Pittock, Graeme Pearman, Brian Tucker.Their Greenhouse ‘87 first conference I remember, but others before.

[JoanStaples @StaplesJoan]

Pascoe nails it on the housing crisis! https://t.co/lCk7Qzu6A8

[JoanStaples @StaplesJoan]

Wildlife photographer arrested in Tasmanian forest where swift parrot habitat is being logged https://t.co/L0JFfjGeFr

[Bill Hare @BillHareClimate]

NSW push to stop climate protesters livestreaming on Facebook labelled ‘profoundly anti-democratic’.

https://t.co/0Q0xCq9qzP

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

Until we break the circle of corruption where big business like PwC donates cash to the major parties and invariably gets huge contracts and access to decision making processes, our country will be run according to the priorities of the rich and powerful.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

I moved a motion to debate the Govt giving $1.5B of taxpayer money to Middle Arm.

Middle Arm will unlock Beetaloo for fracking + enable petrochemical production & gas exports.

Terrible health risks for people in Darwin & ⬆️ emissions (Beetaloo = 3177 years of domestic gas use).

[JoanStaples @StaplesJoan]

Labor is continuing with a’gas led’ development https://t.co/a88t6hGIGO

[JoanStaples @StaplesJoan]

Many echoes of the collapse of the Liberal Party in OZ as neoliberal ideology is taken to its extremes. https://t.co/t6RgjbDHMH

[JoanStaples @StaplesJoan]

Fossil fuel sponsorships in sports should go the way of tobacco https://t.co/MJIlPfshM1

[Bill Hare @BillHareClimate]

Australia’s Crackdown on Climate Activists ⁦@Sophiemcneill⁩ ⁦@hrw⁩

“Peaceful protesters…up to two years in prison. Legislation rammed through parliament …

“…happening right now in Australia.”

Political class captured by gas industry. https://t.co/dHC7XF3KtS

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

$180 million and five years later the Tax Office and the Federal Police are dragged screaming to an investigation of PwC! This story would have been buried forever if not for an inquisitive journalist. Who’s protecting PwC?

[JoanStaples @StaplesJoan]

This is the true reality of the first year of the Albanese government, not the puff pieces you may have read! https://t.co/zkLPhBEnbP

[JoanStaples @StaplesJoan]

@EJ_Aus Approving the new Isaac River coalmine AND dismissing this EJA legal intervention says heaps about the lack of moral backbone in this Labor government!

[Peter Wills - Stop Santos Hunter Gas Pipeline CSG @peterjameswills]

Santos are selling their filthy toxic industry to the gullible at the Gunnedah Agricultural Show this weekend, trying to flog the expansion of the #narrabrigas project into the #liverpoolplains & the #hunter #gas #pipeline across our farms.

Farmers are preparing for the battle.

[Christine Milne AO @ChristineMilne]

When the political tide turns, it can be quick and brutal. It happened today in Hobart. @AlboMP now associated with circuses and right wing shock jocks. Budget will confirm it. #TaxCuts Homelessness and poverty relegated to peripheral issue. He is now scrambling. #auspol

[JoanStaples @StaplesJoan]

@MichaelPascoe01 clearly shows the hypocrisy of the defence review. https://t.co/jhMdIP99MY