Jon Eastgate

Jon Eastgate

@joneastgate.bsky.social

Living on Yaggera and Turrbal Country. Time to ditch fossil fuels. Check out my work at https://www.climatehousing.com.au/ and my play at https://paintingfakes.blogspot.com/

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Jon Eastgate
@joneastgate.bsky.social

$20m to prevent an extinction-level event? WTF?

Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS@euanritchie.bsky.social

It’s an insult, a national disgrace. This is @albomp.bsky.social & Murray Watt making it crystal clear that they do not see helping Australian wildlife in the face of this massive threat a high priority. Submarines, anyone? au.news.yahoo.com/australias-2...

au.news.yahoo.comAustralia's $20 million virus announcement ridiculed: 'Forgot a zero'The Albanese Government's "serious" funding commitment has been slammed as "deeply unserious".
Jon Eastgate
@joneastgate.bsky.social

We could solve homelessness, but instead we choose to put our resources into criminalising it in the hope that this will somehow make homeless people disappear. It won't but they may move to somewhere less visible and therefore less safe.

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com

‘They’ve taken all my stuff’: councils across Australia threaten homeless people with fines and confiscation of belongings

theguardian.com‘They’ve taken all my stuff’: councils across Australia threaten homeless people with fines and confiscation of belongingsAs homelessness surges, councils have been thrust to the frontline of managing the crisis * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Queensland woman Tamika Jamieson lives in fear of being moved on … again. “They’ve taken all my stuff, all my belongings, everything off me five times,” she says. Continue reading...

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Yung En Chee
@yungenchee.bsky.social

Smart countries learned the vital importance of mitigating vulnerability to fossil fuel dependency & planned a path to decarbonized sovereignty 👀 www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aga... Others are still sharing tired ideas that'll lock in further dependency & enrich the industry flogging it 🙄

ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social

Billions of dollars worth of investment will flow if the federal government mandates a percentage of biofuels be added to the nation's fuel supply, major investors say.

abc.net.auBiofuels could ease our energy woes. But the industry says it needs a mandateBillions of dollars worth of investment will flow if the federal government mandates a percentage of biofuels be added to the nation's fuel supply, major investors say.
Jon Eastgate
@joneastgate.bsky.social

Not to be forgotten.

Rob Arnol@robertarnol.bsky.social

222 years ago on this date, the first massacre was committed against Aboriginal people in Tasmania. The occupational settlement by white British nationals was one day old. About 300 Aboriginal people from the Big River and Oyster Bay tribes had gathered for a kangaroo drive. Upon being sighted by

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Existential Comics
@existentialcomics.com

In light in these events, I do think we need more gun control. Anyone off the street shouldn't be able to just walk in and buy a gun. There should be MANDATORY marksmanship lessons for all gun owners.

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Yung En Chee
@yungenchee.bsky.social

Marvellous!🎉 Bring on the tax (be ambitious!) & I hope WoodCIDE's projects go away & die Would rather have the irreplaceable Murujuga rock art culture & knowledge library, less environmental destruction, less pollution & improved chances of a liveable climate for life on earth

ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social

Oil and gas giant Woodside denies its business model is "weak" while arguing that paying a proposed flat tax on gas exports would kill the company's projects.

abc.net.auWoodside tells inquiry no projects 'would survive' with additional taxOil and gas giant Woodside denies its business model is "weak" while arguing that paying a proposed flat tax on gas exports would kill the company's projects.
Jon Eastgate
@joneastgate.bsky.social

This is a classic example of the 'dictator illusion'. No one person can rule a country the size of the US. It takes thousands of people. Trump is the chief sales person for a large network of oligarchs who are enriching themselves on the back of mayhem and destruction.

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Jennifer Crawford
@ournewhomecoach.bsky.social

This is actually appalling. As Australia has a significant Lebanese community I would expect condemnation from @albomp.bsky.social @tonyburkemp.bsky.social and Penny Wong. #Auspol.

Ann Harries@annharries.bsky.social

So Israel has now killed very nearly as many Lebanese as Israelis were killed on October 7, including 100 children and there’s hardly a word of condemnation other than from Carney and Macron. Why no international outcry at the ethnic cleansing that’s taking place.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁
@ingridm.bsky.social

“police allege the women had changed into Difficult Women t-shirts to hide their identities” ah yes that well publicised and serious charge of wearing a t-shirt to “hide your identity” from people with guns and coercive powers of the state. www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/escalat...

sydneycriminallawyers.com.auEscalation in Tactics, as VicPol Raid Nonviolent Zelda8 Protesters: Interview with WACAThe Zelda8 are women who staged a feminist protest at Victorian Trades Hall and raided a month later in response, which seems due to the labelling their action as antisemitic.

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Dave Lennon
@davelennon.bsky.social

This is beyond disgraceful ... the lack of coverage in the western press is at best unprofessional at worst racist and another confirmation the right's unending campaign against the UN is bearing fruit.

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social

Three Indonesian peacekeepers dead. Killed by Israeli bombs. Not militants. Not fighters. UN peacekeepers. The world's response? Absolute silence. If Hamas or Hezbollah killed three UN workers, Media would run it for weeks. "Barbaric terrorists" 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️

Jon Eastgate
@joneastgate.bsky.social

"In 2025, five Palestinian writers and 15 Jewish writers appeared. And this year we planned to include three Palestinian and 12 Jewish writers." So in shutting down Adelaide Writers' Week Australia's Zionist lobby managed to silence 12 Jewish writers. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...

johnmenadue.comLouise Adler sets the record straight on Adelaide Writers' WeekThe Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) debacle might have served as a “life lesson” to politicians and lobbyists about the risks involved in interfering with the independence of arts organisations. But as w...
Jon Eastgate
@joneastgate.bsky.social

It's moments like this I feel smug about riding my bike everywhere.

Michael West@michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

Yes, there's a plan for fuel crisis. The Govt spent $150k trying to stop @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOI to get it. Here it is - published with link to worse case #auspol #Iran michaelwest.com.au/fuel-crisis-...

michaelwest.com.auFuel crisis - Government’s playbook revealed - Michael WestRex Patrick obtained the government's Fuel Security crisis document on FOI. What happens when petrol prices from the Iran war rise too high?
Jon Eastgate
@joneastgate.bsky.social

So, the 'Isis Brides'. - 23 are children. They are not responsible for anything. - All 34 are Australian citizens, entitled to return. - None of them has been convicted of a crime, or even charged. The idea that we should leave them in a crappy camp forever is cruel. This is not 'social cohesion'.

Jon Eastgate
@joneastgate.bsky.social

Want to boost business in your local cmshopping precinct? Make it easier for people to walk or ride there.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

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Dr Ingrid M🪁
@ingridm.bsky.social

PM: “I have nothing but contempt for these people… “ ABC: What about the children? PM: “That is the responsibility of their parents and their mothers in particular… their mothers made this decision to travel overseas against the national interest…”

Jon Eastgate
@joneastgate.bsky.social

If you ever wonder who is the greatest threat to world peace...

Jeff Galvin@docgalvin64.bsky.social

JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

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Michael West
@michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

Too easy Albo. Royal Commission terms of ref to include Netanyahu effect on antisemitism and Murdoch's The Israelian & other media peddling lies for a foreign lobby (their effect). That'll sort it

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Yung En Chee
@yungenchee.bsky.social

The beauty of Australia's Safeguard Mechanism...it work so good! ...for fossil fuel producers... #Santos #CarbonCreditUnitsSupportingFossilFuelProduction

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

CONGRATS to Australian fossil fuel company Santos, which has been granted 614,133 carbon offsets for its new CCS facility. Assuming a price of $37, that's $22m AUD in profits if they sell the CCS offsets. Or 600k tonnes of fake "neutralisation" if they claim it for themselves. archive.ph/jqIZe

Jon Eastgate
@joneastgate.bsky.social

I agree with the Liberal Party. Net zero is a scam and we should abandon it. It's like saying it's OK to commit murder as long as you pay a surrogate to have a baby at the same time. Also, that it's ok to procure multiple murders in another country because that's the other country's problem.

Jon Eastgate
@joneastgate.bsky.social

Instead we should be stopping murders, wherever they happen - that is to say, we should be actually stopping emissions. Not burning or digging up fossil fuels. Not bulldozing native forests. We all know what to do.

Jon Eastgate
@joneastgate.bsky.social

In case you think the analogy with murder is a little far-fetched, a team of researchers led by Monash University found that between 2000 and 2019, 5 million extra deaths were caused by climate change related extreme weather events. www.monash.edu/news/article...

monash.eduWorld's largest study of global climate related mortality links 5 million deaths a year to abnormal temperaturesStudy of global climate related mortality links 5 million deaths a year to abnormal temperatures.
Jon Eastgate
@joneastgate.bsky.social

I think this is absolutely correct. The right wing of politics has been very quick to harness this anger and turn it to their own ends, which are mainly 'make rich people richer'. The mainstream left has resisted and tried to be the 'sensible centre' when they should be for radical redistribution.

Elise Thomas@elisethomas.bsky.social

I feel like a lot of pundits are really missing the obvious by pontificating about how Trump’s vote reflected a huge swing to the right and Mandani’s to the left. It’s much simpler than that: they’re both ‘fuck the system’ votes. It’s not left-right, it’s status quo vs literally anything else.