Leigh Callinan

Retired Biometrician and Agricultural Scientist suffering from Climate Breakdown Anxiety

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2026-10-08 10:47:20 UTC

“We are a rich country with supposedly universal healthcare. Raising jobseeker to the poverty line (about $37,000 a year) would cost roughly $11bn this year.” Greg Jericho, Guardian, 170926.
We can’t afford it? Well we can afford to spend $35m per day for the next 25 years to get AUKUS, which many independent defence experts say will never happen. #Auspol

2026-10-08 10:41:24 UTC

“Currently, jobseeker payments are almost half the poverty line – roughly $300 a week less than what would be needed for a single person to be right on the poverty line. The only time this was not the case was during the Covid pandemic when the Morrison government effectively doubled jobseeker temporarily. During 2020, the death rate of those on jobseeker dropped 32%”
Greg Jericho, Guardian, 170926. #Auspol

2026-10-03 02:50:36 UTC

"A country that cannot recognise a duty of care to future generations is not merely failing environmentally. It is failing morally. It is admitting that short-term political survival matters more than the safety, stability and dignity of the people who come after us."
Anjali Sharma, student and climate activist. The Saturday Paper, 3-9,10, 26
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2026-03-26 11:07:47 UTC

“Above the streets of Tehran, the weapons bay of an F-35 fighter jet opens and a missile streaks groundward, raining death and destruction on the city below.
The mechanism that allows the jet to rapidly open its bay doors and fire is made in only one place in the world: a factory in suburban Melbourne. More than 700 of the fighter jet’s “critical pieces” are manufactured in Victoria alone.” Ben Doherty, Guardian, 140326. We are complicit in an illegal war. #Auspol

2026-02-21 10:35:32 UTC

“ … the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found global emissions needed to be cut by 43% between 2019 and 2030 to keep the Paris agreement goal of limiting heating to 1.5C above preindustrial levels in play. We are light years from that.” Adam Morton, Guardian, 120226
#Auspol #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2026-01-17 02:47:07 UTC

“the CGT {Capital Gains Tax} discount costs the federal budget about $23bn in forgone revenue” {per year}, ...” Current federal parliamentary enquiry into housing affordability. Tom McIlroy Political editor, Guardian 140126. That’d just about get us a Very Fast Train connecting Gadigal(Sydney), Canberra, Naarm(Melbourne). Poor Fella My Country.
#Auspol #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2025-12-27 03:39:29 UTC

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I think Richard Dawkins explained our behaviour in 'The Selfish Gene'. We've evolved to protect our own survival today, not the survival of others, now or in the future.

2025-12-27 02:36:03 UTC

“…. popular unrest at the spectre of global heating is growing while Albanese licences more coalmines, gas fracking and forest burning.”
Bob Brown, ‘An Act of Contempt’, The Saturday Paper, 6-12 December 2025.
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2025-09-16 01:22:07 UTC

The National Climate Risk Assessment says that >2oC of warming, which is where we are heading, will induce the breakdown of our environment and our society. And we couldn't care less. #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2025-09-15 05:23:48 UTC

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I’m with you. You should have moved to ACT, the only progressive enclave in Australia.

2025-09-14 10:08:17 UTC

"A number of critical factors allowed Australians to elect a more climate-forward government despite total inundation with climate disinformation by the Murdoch media and other conservative news outlets; {including} several key attributes of Australian elections: compulsory voting, absence of partisan districting {gerrymandering} and preferential or “ranked choice” voting." Michael Mann and Peter Hotez, Guardian, 090925. Most thanks to the Australian Electoral Commission. #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2025-09-14 06:17:52 UTC

"Woodside’s North West Shelf extension {is} a “carbon bomb” ,..., According to Woodside’s own reports, the project extension will be responsible for 87.9m tonnes of CO2-e per year, including the greenhouse gases released when the gas is sold and burned, mostly overseas. This is the equivalent to about 20% of Australia’s current annual carbon footprint." Graham Readfearn, Climate and environment correspondent. Guardian, 120925. Labor was never going to protect us from Climate Breakdown. #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2025-07-05 00:04:13 UTC

"How can you seriously say you are committed to reaching net zero emissions by 2050 while allowing a potent greenhouse gas to be produced for decades beyond that? Especially when national climate pollution is not coming down at anything like the pace promised, or required?" Adam Morton, Climate and Environment Editor, Guardian, 040725. Answer that Albo. #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2025-05-28 11:26:03 UTC

Of course Labor have approved Woodside's massive expansion of fossil fuel extraction, processing, use and export until 2070. Most of us voted for this. I don't expect our descendants will ever forgive us.
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2025-04-15 04:23:34 UTC

"Coalition scores just 1/100 points for environment and climate policies from conservation organisation.
Australian Conservation Foundation says opposition has ‘failed every single test’ while Labor passes with 54% and Greens achieve 98%".
Petra Stock, Guardian, 150425. #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2025-03-25 22:05:18 UTC

"Anthony Albanese has made a remarkable U-turn on protecting nature. A year ago he was backing his environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, to revamp the 25-year-old national law and create a national Environment Protection Agency (EPA) to make key decisions and impose beefed-up penalties." Adam Morton, Guardian 250325. Why would you believe any of his promises?. #auspol

2025-03-25 05:00:15 UTC

"the richest 10% will get $27bn this year in tax breaks from the capital gains tax discount, negative gearing and the superannuation tax concessions" Greg Jericho, Guardian, 270225. Yet Labor can't afford to raise welfare benefits. Vote Green or Teal. #auspol.

2025-03-21 03:55:43 UTC

"In 2023-24 the government delivered a budget surplus of $15.8bn. It did not do this because it gained more revenue than expected; ... It delivered a surplus because even though at the time nearly 22% of retirees were living in poverty, the government chose not to do anything about it." Greg Jericho, Guardian, 200325. That's how Labor looks after low income earners. Vote Green or Teal. #auspol

2025-03-02 05:55:42 UTC

"But starting a nuclear power industry from scratch in Australia is a nonsensical idea for many reasons – not least because it is too expensive and will take too long.
In the context of the coming federal election, the nuclear policy is arguably a red herring – one designed to distract voters from a Coalition policy program that slows the transition to renewables and drags out the life of dirty and unreliable coal-fired power." John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, UQ, Conversation 260225.
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2025-03-02 04:12:07 UTC

"In October last year, a House of Representatives select committee was formed to investigate the deployment of nuclear energy in Australia. ,..., The report said evidence presented so far showed the deployment of nuclear power generation in Australia “is currently not a viable investment of taxpayer money”." John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, UQ, Conversation 260225. #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2025-02-20 10:13:55 UTC

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I think Dutton, despite his malevolent deeds and words and past failures, is supported by about half of us is because of the Murdoch and Stokes propaganda.

2025-02-19 04:19:00 UTC

"If he’s good as his word, Dutton would attempt to put the brakes on investment in large-scale solar and windfarms and battery storage, which has just taken off and begun to approach the pace needed to get close to Labor’s goal of 82% renewable energy by 2030 and replace a fleet of coal-fired power plants nearing the end of their lives." Adam Morton, Guardian, 180225. #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2025-02-10 04:59:34 UTC

In Victoria, "The Liberals gained Prahran from the Greens by a 51.6–48.4 margin, a 13.6% swing to the Liberals since the 2022 state election." The Conversation, 100225. A majority in Prahran voted to increase Climate Breakdown. They are on a winner there. #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2025-01-21 03:44:04 UTC

"Enough with governments caring more about preventing protests against fossil fuel use than they are about preventing use of fossil fuels." Greg Jericho, Guardian, 160125. Unless you vote Green or Teal you'll be voting for Climate Breakdown. #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis.

2025-01-20 09:50:31 UTC

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Yes, P. F. Sloan wrote 'Eve of Destruction' and Barry McGuire sang it. The Byrds turned it down. It's in my all time top 10.

2025-01-20 09:22:18 UTC

"The global economy could face 50% loss in gross domestic product (GDP) between 2070 and 2090 from the catastrophic shocks of climate change ,...
The stark warning {comes} from risk management experts {at} the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA)" & the University of Exeter. Sandra Laville, Guardian, 160125. But you don't believe we're on the Eve of Destruction (P. F. Sloan, 1965). #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis.

2025-01-05 05:51:45 UTC

"Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, has until Feb 28 to decide whether to approve the 50 year extension to the biggest fossil fuel project in Australia {North West Shelf}. The stakes are high . Woodside's reckless proposal will make Australia and the world hotter." Ebony Bennett, Canberra Times, 211224. #auspol #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

2025-01-01 04:29:47 UTC

"The Australia Institute estimates that State and Federal Governments have missed out on at least $13.3 billion of royalty revenue that should have been charged on gas exports during the past four years." ." Ebony Bennett, Canberra Times, 211224. #auspol

2024-10-19 04:06:58 UTC

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as kids we wandered far, coming home for meals. We didn’t need water bottles.

2024-09-10 06:01:57 UTC

"...there is a 90% chance that the continuation of current climate policies will result in 2.3 to 4.5 oC of global warming by the end of the century." Joelle Gergis (2024). Highway to Hell. Climate Change and Australia's future. Quarterly Essay. Issue 94. Page 7, para 3. Civilization won't survive that. Never mind, dance on. #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis