Rob Phair

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?

The MacIntyre River behind Mungindi today, no flows all year, lowest its ever been according to locals. All so King Cotton can make more money. They made 3 billion in export profits last year and still trying to expand. @nswdcceew @GWFWater @WaterNSW @nswirrigators @RoseBJackson @PennySharpemlc @nswalc @bradmoggo @MD_Basin_Auth

Something Is Shifting Inside Russia Recent developments inside Russia suggest the system is struggling to cope with mounting pressures. These include growing domestic strains, behind-the-scenes manoeuvring among elites, rumours of a coup d’état, a tighter and more reactive grip on control, fears of losing that control, and increasing exposure to Ukrainian strikes and assassinations. All this is unfolding against a worsening external backdrop: a destabilised Middle East and stalemate over Iran, a distracted Trump, and a more militarised (including nuclear-oriented) Europe. For the first time in years of war, there may be a shift. Pressures have reached a point where too many actors inside Russia face a new reality: the status quo is starting to threaten their own position. If nothing changes, it makes survival difficult, if not impossible. Until recently, many assumed that Putin had a plan, even if it was simply to keep the war going. Now there are growing doubts as to whether such a plan exists. And even if it does, it may imply political or physical ruin for some. Ironically, after years of pursuing a “wait and see” approach towards the West and, in part, Ukraine, Putin has now become the object of a similar approach from the Americans — an uncomfortable position for Russians. There are growing sentiments in Russia that the current system of governance is becoming too damaging and increasingly self-defeating. Tolerance for the status quo is eroding. However, different actors interpret that change in opposing ways, while Putin appears either unable or unwilling to rethink his policy.

🤦‍♂️ Put another way Clare Armstrong via @abcnews The Govt 'unwillingness' to tax 🇦🇺 gas exports appropriately, whilst signalling cuts to the NDIS, demonstrates exactly in whose interests they are governing Funny how that part was missed... abc.net.au/news/2026-04-2…

The PM wants you to know it's a difficult and uncertain time… for gas giants. Give me a break. Do you know who it's actually a difficult and uncertain time for? Us. Everyday Australians are currently being taxed more heavily than the greedy gas corporations.

Anthony Albanese has signalled that he isn't taking the huge, bipartisan, national call for a gas tax seriously. What's funny about that is he is supposed to work for you, not gas companies. He doesn't take YOU seriously.

You may have thought you were voting for @AustralianLabor and then it turns out they’re owned by foreign owned gas corporates. Our democracy has been hijacked by corporate lobbyists.

@ChrisO_wiki ‘Journalist’ or blogger / activist? She offers many opinions in her posts…

1/ Complaints about Internet blocks from Russian Instagram celebrities are obscuring a host of other problems, many caused by the Ukraine war, argues journalist Anastasia Kashevarova. Her long list highlights the increasingly severe difficulties faced by Russia's population. ⬇️

Gas companies are spending millions to ensure Australians aren't paid a fair share for the export of our gas.

Treasury and the ATO can't even tell us how much of the $1.5B in PRRT we received last year was from offshore LNG. We know it's likely mostly from oil in Bass Strait so we're getting WAY LESS than $1.5B from offshore LNG exports. 2nd biggest gas exporter in the world but we don't even how much we get from offshore LNG exports 🤯 Go to ourgas.com.au to help change it.

The PM and other major party politicians are getting their figures from the gas industry rather than the ATO and Treasury 🤯 Whose side are they on? When you try and interrogate these figures from the gas lobby you get “PAGE NOT FOUND”. You cannot make this stuff up! Head to ourgas.com.au to get involved. The only way we win this is if the major parties know they will continue to lose votes at the next election if they don't put Australians first.

Konrad Benjamin nails the root of the problem: to stop large industries from ripping us all off, politicians need to stop “going to work in the industries that they literally wrote the rules for”🔥 Rules that as Dr Denniss points out, see gas co’s “pay more in PR than PRRT”💥

Konrad Benjamin on fire in today’s gas tax inquiry, says those claiming “we can’t afford anything” are full of it, & we have plenty of resources to benefit from “This gas issue is the perfect eg of how it’s a lie” “We’ve been sold out”🔥 #auspol @punterspolitix @TheAusInstitute

@BrianMcDonaldIE And why are you repeating his false claims & disinformation, Brian? Who do you work for?

Yanis Varoufakis has explained his visit to Moscow last weekend, arguing the EU has chosen "forever war" over a "sensible peace and security pact" with Russia. He says "four years of sanctions and war have achieved the opposite result," claiming they have "stabilised Putin’s reign" while leaving Western Europe "struggling to find increasingly scarce means of prolonging the war." Varoufakis adds that rebuilding dialogue with Russian society is essential, warning that cutting those channels is "a form of self-harm," and he believes Russians are "ready to welcome" a negotiated settlement.

@BrianMcDonaldIE You are retweeting Russian propaganda, Brian.

"Corrupt" is probably the wrong word, but short-sighted is fair. What a lot of people miss is how strong Atlanticism is in Western Germany. There’s an entire political, media, business, social, academic and institutional ecosystem built around it, the Atlantiker mindset. And for many, the Atlantik-Brücke is almost a religion in itself. For example, Germany’s largest media group, Axel Springer, requires its journalists to sign a declaration supporting the transatlantic alliance and Israel. That tells you something about the prevailing outlook. It’s not unlike how Communist Party membership was effectively necessary for career progression at TASS in the Soviet Union. So even though figures like Gerhard Schröder, and to an extent Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Oskar Lafontaine, were open to closer ties with Russia, that approach was always swimming against a very powerful current.

昨日、ロシア大使館主催のイベントに複数の政治家が出席しました。私が所属するオープンソース情報機関「Frontelligence Insight」は、ウクライナ戦争だけでなく海外でのロシアの活動も継続的に調査してきました。今回はその知見をもとに、ロシアの影響工作について日本の皆さんにお伝えします

The poison of Casinos in #auscities, almost always on prime public land gifted by witless State Govts to most nefarious entities, almost always without any semblance of public process, all too often bailed out by successive State Govts due to incompetence Here Brisbane’s travesty

Burning “smokeless fuels” increases ultrafine particle emissions. “Based on this data, we underscore the need to move away from residential solid fuel burning as part of the wider societal aim to decarbonise the economy by 2050.” universityofgalway.ie/about-us/news-…

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week. It investigates the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary. With English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?si…

@Wild_SPb Долой рашистам 🇺🇦

«Ну что, ребят. Мужик сказал — мужик сделал. Вот она медаль» Эмоции российского ски-альпиниста Никиты Филиппова, который завоевал серебро в спринте. Молодчик!