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yungenchee.bsky.social
Progress? Why does Labor's "climate action" look like this:

⚠️48,000 km2 opened for offshore Oil & Gas exploration
⚠️Sea Dumping Bill that'll enable high-risk CCS
⚠️ #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
⚠️30 🤯 NEW Coal & Gas projects approved
⚠️$15B in fossil fuel subsidies for 2024-2025
chrisbowenmp.bsky.social Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · May 3
In 2022, the Australian people voted to finally act on climate change

After three years of progress- in 2025 they said keep going.
May 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
yungenchee.bsky.social
Hope Fremantle Labor MP Josh Wilson who was "blindsided" by Labor's #FutureGasStrategy "to 2050 and beyond" and who "rebelled" over "government gas strategy" (according ABC news "reporting") gets along to the Australia Institute chat & properly rebels against new coal & gas! #AusVotes25
richarddenniss.bsky.social Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · Apr 27
Cant believe we’ve had a whole election without the PM or Opposition leader being asked why they support opening (and subsidising!) new coal & gas projects?

In Fremantle Monday night?

Come along and have a chat if you can #climate
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/burned_by_bi...
Burned by Big Fossil Fuels
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April 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
Why does Labor's "climate action" look like this:
⚠️48,000 km2 opened 4 offshore Oil & Gas exploration
⚠️Sea Dumping Bill that'll enable high-risk CCS
⚠️ #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
⚠️30 🤯 NEW Coal & Gas projects approved
⚠️$15B in fossil fuel subsidies for 2024-2025
yungenchee.bsky.social Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · May 3
30 NEW Coal & Gas projects approved in the Albo govt's first term (& fossil fuel exports are the bulk, ~80% of Australia's contributions to global carbon emissions)

And today Labor is returned with a majority—what lesson do you think Labor will take from their triumph?

😢 for a liveable climate
profterryhughes.bsky.social Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · May 2
After months of official silence, mass mortality of corals in Western Australia - since January - is finally getting attention. www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...
May 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
yungenchee.bsky.social
Fantastic milestone showing what's achievable👏

But we've not forgotten Labor's record of:
⚠️>46,000km2 opened 4 offshore Oil+Gas exploration
⚠️SeaDumpingBill that'll enable high-risk CCS
⚠️ #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
⚠️31 🤯 NEW/EXT Coal+Gas projs approved
⚠️$15B in fossil fuel subsidies 2024-25
chrisbowenmp.bsky.social Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · Jan 24
You may have missed the news this week while certain groups focus on themselves, but Australia’s grid has hit a new milestone.
January 24, 2026 at 6:50 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
Anyone hear any protest from any of the Labor MPs "blindsided" by the Albo govt's #FutureGasStrategy "to 2050 and beyond"❓

Any signs of life in any member of the 94-seat super-majority Albo govt who might have a care for a liveable planet❓
September 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
yungenchee.bsky.social
Commiserations UK

After @albomp.bsky.social's Labor came into power in Australia we got:
👎>46,000km2 opened 4 offshore Oil+Gas exploration
👎 #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
👎 subsidies to fossil fuel industry of $15B in 2024-25, $16.3B in 2025-26
👎36 approvals of new/extension Coal+Gas projects
July 18, 2026 at 11:55 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
It's EOFY donations season in 🇦🇺

How've your fave climate & environment orgs dealt w Labor's

⚠️ineffective Safeguard Mechanism❓
⚠️dodgy carbon offsets❓
⚠️Sea Dumping Bill❓
⚠️ #FutureGasStrategy❓
⚠️continuing approvals of Coal & Gas projects❓
⚠️reneging on EPA, EIA❓
⚠️regressive EPBC Reconsiderations bill❓
yungenchee.bsky.social Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Apr 21
Indeed, so much accommodation & cheerleading even of Labor's multi-loophole Safeguard Mechanism from ENGOs...
Screenshot of a twitter post from 24 Mar 2023: ACF: We're absolutely adamant we cannot have new coal & gas ACF: What we want to see in the safeguard mechanism is that any new coal & gas that is approved has no impact on the climate... it must use credible offsets to have no climate pollution entering our climate from day 1 (exploding head emoji) Screenshot of a twitter post from LEAN Australia (Labor Environment Action Network Australia) from 10 Mar 2023 It reads: "With Safeguard Mania continuing, and every stakeholder in the nation offering up their best new idea, read LEAN's view. In short: It's transformational. It relies on the quality of offsets. New entrants are best dealt with in the EPBC." Screenshot of a twitter post from 9 Mar 2023 Replying to @ChristineMilne @climatecouncil and @DavidPocock @climatecouncil can you please clarify? It is unfathomable how an org can reconcile producing this powerfully affecting climate trauma project with advising politicians to vote for the safeguard mechanism regardless of amendments What's ur position? There's a link to 'Climate Trauma: the growing toll of climate change on the mental health of Australia'
June 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
yungenchee.bsky.social
Or approving Glencore's Ulan coalmine extension❓

Or approving 30🤯 other new/extensions of Coal+Gas projs in the @albomp.bsky.social govt's 1st term❓

Or Labor's #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond❓

Or opening up 46,000km2 for Oil+Gas exploration❓

Will u heed warnings, @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social❓
gasugasu1984.bsky.social Garth-Gasu ガース in日本語 @gasugasu1984.bsky.social · Sep 15
"Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen said the assessment was an honest warning of the cost of failing to act."

you mean like approving the climate bomb extension of the NW Shelf thru to 2070? @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social

#climatecriminals #climatecrisis
September 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
This is what enabling fossil fuel corps in @australianlabor.bsky.social's #FutureGasStrategy "to 2050 & beyond" requires, so we will work with every level of government to provide ambulances at the bottom of cliffs

#ClimateBreakdownIDontKnowHer
albomp.bsky.social Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social · Mar 9
We're working with every level of government to make sure people in Queensland and New South Wales affected by Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred get the help they need straight away.
March 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
coupdegraz7.bsky.social
#auspol #climatecrisis #ProtectionRacket4FossilFuel #AustralianPipelineAndGasAssociation #FutureGasStrategy
roycerk2.bsky.social Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · May 9
The good people at the Australian Pipeline and Gas Association welcome the Future Gas Strategy and lay out their ask, including a cut of renewable money and for Tipakalippa to be wound back:
May 9, 2024 at 7:50 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
"everyone knows we didn't get as far in the last term as we hoped" - Murray Watt

Weird summary of:
👎ineffective Safeguard Mechanism
👎dodgy carbon offsets
👎Sea Dumping Bill
👎 #FutureGasStrategy
👎continuing approvals of Coal & Gas projects
👎reneging on EPA, EIA
👎regressive EPBC Reconsiderations bill
Environment 'compromise' needed, says Watt, as he seeks debate reset
After the two previous terms of government failed to reform environmental approval laws, Environment Minister Murray Watt brings together stakeholders to see if an agreement can be struck to finally u...
www.abc.net.au
June 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
Fri 25 Sep

PM @albomp.bsky.social tells #ClimateWeekNYC "Australia understands the dangers of global warming & the urgency of climate action"

Chooses
☠️ to open >46,000km2 for Oil+Gas exploration
☠️ #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
☠️ to approve new/extension Coal/Gas carbon 💣projs-37 & counting
Protestors at the weekly Friday protest at the allegedly pro-environment Josh Burns' St Kilda office speaking with passers-by The A-frame discusses community opposition to the Port Melbourne data centre Stalwart protestor at weekly Friday protest outside Josh Burns' office poses with 2 large banners On the left, yellow banner says TAX GAS EXPORTS On the right, red & white banner says SHAME LABOR DON'T DRILL 12 APOSTLES
September 26, 2026 at 1:19 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
The way the @albomp.bsky.social govt "acts" on climate is TERRIFYING:

⚠️>46,000km2 opened 4 offshore Oil+Gas exploration
⚠️Sea Dumping Bill that'll enable high-risk CCS
⚠️ #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
⚠️32🤯 approvals of NEW/EXTENSION Coal+Gas projects
⚠️$15B in fossil fuel subsidies for 2024-2025
September 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
The 94-set super-majority @albomp.bsky.social govt has a mandate for strong #ClimateAction

But they keep running in the opposite direction
💣>46,000km2 opened 4 offshore Oil+Gas exploration
💣 #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
💣subsidies to fossil fuel industry of $15B in 2024-25, $16.3B in 2025-26
yungenchee.bsky.social Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 22d
Fri 4 Sep

As the 🌏 witnesses
😢the immense suffering & 💔 in aftermath of the Nepal glacier-rockslide & flash flood
😢the death of 1.5°C target

@albomp.bsky.social gov
🤬Turned on the tap for fracked Beetaloo gas
🤬Approved their 37th Coal & Gas new/extension project

What will you do with your anger❓️
September 10, 2026 at 6:26 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
Rinehart is a motivated, self-serving liar

How does Labor
⚠️opening >46,000km2 4 offshore Oil+Gas exploration
⚠️devising #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
⚠️doling out $15B in fossil fuel subsidies for 2024-2025
⚠️approving 32🤯 NEW/EXTENSION Coal+Gas projects (& counting)

help ⬇️C & GHG emissions?
chrisbowenmp.bsky.social Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · Sep 29
Rhetoric like this is dangerous and should be called out. 

Climate change is real and it is having real effects on our farmers now.
September 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
"It's slated to begin operations in 2030 & would run for up to 44 years in the Torosa gas field, 425 km offshore from Broome under a large coral reef system in the Browse Basin"

Fits Labor's #FutureGasStrategy #To2050AndBeyond —just ignore marine heatwaves, drilling under a lge coral reef system..
May 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
coupdegraz7.bsky.social
“Unforgivable Act of Intergenerational Negligence”
#auspol #FutureGasStrategy #fossilfuels #climatecrisis
May 9, 2024 at 7:45 AM
coupdegraz7.bsky.social
#auspol #FutureGasStrategy #climatecrisis
May 9, 2024 at 7:44 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
Also Labor's record in govt:

⚠️>2,200 species at risk of extinction
⚠️48,000 km2 opened 4 offshore Oil & Gas exploratn
⚠️Sea Dumping Bill that'll enable high-risk CCS
⚠️ #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
⚠️30🤯 NEW Coal & Gas projs approved
⚠️EPBC sabotage of ministerial powers to revoke past decisions
yungenchee.bsky.social Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Mar 22
The $250M is welcome
But how much ongoing protection & mgt does $8.33/hectare buy?

Env Minister @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social can't srsly be "pleased with the progress we've made in just one term" when we have:
❗NO National Env Standards
❗NO EPA
❗NO EIA
❗expanded 'water trigger' that she won't use
Bushland the size of New Zealand to be protected under budget boost
The government will pledge an additional $250 million in next week's federal budget, as part of efforts to conserve an additional 30 million hectares of Australian bushland.
www.abc.net.au
April 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
yungenchee.bsky.social
Albanese's 1st term included:

⚠️48,000 km2 opened 4 offshore Oil & Gas exploratn
⚠️Sea Dumping Bill that'll enable high-risk CCS
⚠️ #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
⚠️30 🤯 NEW Coal & Gas projects approved
⚠️$15B in fossil fuel subsidies 2024-2025

Could #NorthWestShelfExtension make a minister quit❓
yungenchee.bsky.social Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Jan 8
👀 Imagine a government minister quitting in protest over unconscionable, indefensible fossil fuel expansion policy—I can scarcely believe it 😲

“I cannot vote for the bill next week. The future will judge harshly those that do.”

Good on Chris Skidmore!
Tory MP Chris Skidmore quits with attack on UK climate policy
Fresh by-election challenge for Sunak as ex-energy minister condemns North Sea oil drilling and softening on net zero
www.ft.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
The 'unease' of pro-env Labor MPs never troubled env-destroying policies:
❗10 new coal mines or expansions
❗#FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
❗Sea Dumping Bill
❗opening 48,000 km2 for offshore Oil & Gas exploratn
❗undermining of EPBC Act by limiting civil society powers to challenge past decisions
Labor’s bid to protect Tasmanian salmon industry met with unease from pro-environment MPs
Party’s full caucus endorsed legislation on Monday morning after three meetings, meaning it can go before parliament this week
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
Also @albomp.bsky.social govt:
⚠️ APPROVED 32 new/extensions of Coal & Gas projects
⚠️ #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
⚠️>46,000km2 opened 4 offshore Oil+Gas exploration
⚠️ Sea Dumping Bill that'll enable high-risk CCS
⚠️ Fossil fuel subsidies of $15 billion in 2024-25, $16.3 billion in 2025-26
March 13, 2026 at 12:25 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
It's a genuine question—I'd really like to know what the will of Labor voters is regarding NEW/EXTENSIONS of Coal & Gas projects

Other than #FutureGasStrategy, they went to election with ZERO commitment on fossil fuel productn—does Labor have a 'mandate' for open slather on NEW/EXTS of Coal & Gas❓
yungenchee.bsky.social Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · May 20
People who voted Labor,

In PM @albomp.bsky.social's 1st term, Labor approved 30 NEW Coal & Gas projects/extensions

Labor made NO election commitment regarding NEW/EXTENSIONS of Coal & Gas projects

What is YOUR WILL on Woodside's North West Shelf extension❓
What 'mandate' did you give Labor❓
SIGN NOW: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
Sign the petition: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
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May 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
yungenchee.bsky.social
The way the @albomp.bsky.social govt "acts" on climate is TERRIFYING:

⚠️>46,000km2 opened 4 offshore Oil+Gas exploration
⚠️Sea Dumping Bill that'll enable high-risk CCS
⚠️ #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
⚠️32🤯 approvals of NEW/EXTENSION Coal+Gas projects
⚠️$15B in fossil fuel subsidies for 2024-2025
Australia Emissions 101: It’s the exports.
Where I step through the emissions impact of Australia’s fossil fuel exports so you don’t have to.
timinclimate.medium.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM
yungenchee.bsky.social
The way the @albomp.bsky.social govt "acts" on climate is TERRIFYING:

⚠️>46,000km2 opened 4 offshore Oil+Gas exploration
⚠️Sea Dumping Bill that'll enable high-risk CCS
⚠️ #FutureGasStrategy to 2050 & beyond
⚠️32🤯 approvals of NEW/EXTENSION Coal+Gas projects
⚠️$15B in fossil fuel subsidies for 2024-2025
Australia Emissions 101: It’s the exports.
Where I step through the emissions impact of Australia’s fossil fuel exports so you don’t have to.
timinclimate.medium.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM