Scott Hamilton
@SDHamiltonVIC
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Author, researcher & policy advisor. Adjunct A/Prof @MonashUni Renewable Energy | Water | Green H₂ | Climate Change | Politics #bipartisanship #SoldDownTheRiver
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Robber barons and high-speed traders dominate Australia’s water market.
“Sucking hundreds of millions of dollars each year out of the Murray-Darling Basin”
@SDHamiltonVIC
@UniMelb
&
@StuartKells
@latrobe
@ConversationEDU
#SoldDownTheRiver
out now!
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@abcnews
@abcmelbourne
Why do you keep using Dr Nick Coatsworth to give Covid medical advice in news bulletins rather than the CMO, CHO or delegate thereof? Or the ABC resident Dr Norman Swan?
@ABCmediawatch
@ItaButtrose
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Caller to
@LaTrioli
@abcmelbourne
‘The reason this Fed Gov doesn’t like the $300 vaccination payments idea is because it can’t be targeted to marginal seats.’
#sportsrorts
#porknride
#auspol
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Is anyone keeping a stop watch on how long until
#ScottyFromMarketing
realises stopping free RATS was a really bad idea & backflips?
#insiders
#abc730
@latingle
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#ICYMI
| Outstanding interview by
@Raf_Epstein
@abcmelbourne
“I’m angry,” says
@normanswan
AUS has a right to know what happened in the room with
@pfizer
on 10 July 2020 !😳
#COVID19Aus
#auspol
@SenKatyG
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Look Mr Dutton, it’s a miracle 😳 You can actually store sunlight when the sun goes down to use later 😱
#auspol
@SmartEnergyCncl
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Only when the last tree has burnt down, the last fish been caught, and the last of our clean air polluted, will we realise we cannot eat coal.
#ClimateChange
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#FactCheck
During the debate on 5 May 2022 between Josh Frydenberg and Monique Ryan:
"They [Electricity Prices] are down by around 8% to 10% in the last 2 years,” said Josh Frydenberg. A blatant LIE.
#KooyongVotes
#ausvotes
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#FactCheck
3 weeks ago on 10 April, AUS PM Scott Morrison told us “Electricity Prices are down by 8% over the past 2 years”. A blatant LIE.
#CostsOfLiving
#ausvotes
#auspol
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When
@AlboMP
forgets a 6 pt plan during an election campaign there is near on media hysteria. Morrison gets a obedient presser when he deceives the country on
#SecretPowers
. Not a level playing field.
#auspol
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'If owners of the houses at Wamberal want to sue someone for the erosion endangering their properties, perhaps it should be the Coalition government and other leaders around the world for not acting on climate change'
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On this important day
#ourABC
, worth remembering: ‘Freedom is usually eroded gradually. It might happen over years, even decades. Its loss is not necessarily felt day by day, but we will certainly know when it’s gone.’ Kerry O’Brien, 2019 Walkley Awards
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I don’t hold a hose
I don’t hold a swab
I don’t go to VIC or WA; &
I don’t answer questions
#qt
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#Breaking
@DarrenChesterMP
calls LNP colleague Matt Canavan “that Japanese intelligence officer, Onoda, who refused to accept that WWII was over and hid in the jungle for 30 years” on
@LaTrioli
@abcmelbourne
#ausvotes
#auspol
#ClimateCrisis
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'The example of the Ruby Princess — where a decision to let 2,700 people disembark from the ship in Sydney two weeks ago, despite cases of COVID-19 on board, led to almost 200 cases *across the country* — is considered a textbook example of how not to handle this situation.’
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20 JUL: AUS PM photo-op.
No Masks
No social distancing (1.5m pp)
VIC Treasurer Ok to go to NSW for photo-op & Canberra for ‘work’ but *not* Ok for PARL to sit
#auspol
🤷♂️
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Breaking: Dan stamps out
#COVID
-19 in regional VIC. Steps on the gas & opens up from tmrw midnight. Meanwhile, PM talks about a gas pipe dream in regional NSW - which would not deliver jobs for years & sends us backwards on tackling
#ClimateCrisis
.
#auspol
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‘We can make Australia a renewable energy superpower’
#budgetreply
@AlboMP
Yes we can AUS!!!
#auspol
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BE
WORRIED.
BE VERY
WORRIED.
#ClimateCrisis
Time Magazine 2006
We may have a 'very interesting' few years ahead of us. Global average sea and air temperatures are spiking in 2023, before El Niño has fully arrived. We should be very concerned via
@ConversationEDU
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NZ>>NSW travel bubble bursts on first blow. I don’t hold a transfer gate mate 🙄
#RubyDutton
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This is a cracker of an interview!
@TurnbullMalcolm
joins
@PatsKarvelas
to discuss the PM’s performance. “Very Disappointing” “Too much self-pity,” says Turnbull.
#auspol
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#CairnsAirport
This is what dangerous climate change looks like. More frequent & more powerful storms & flooding. Stop subsidising fossil fuels. Phase out fossil fuels ASAP.
#ClimateCrisis
You too, AUS.
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Clarke&Dawe
B: why not talk about what is causing these extreme fires?
PM: it’s not the time.
B: what about tomorrow?
PM: that’s too soon.
B: so when?
PM: when extreme events stop.
B: but doesn’t climate change mean longer bushfire seasons & more extreme events?
PM: yes Brian.
Catastrophic bushfires are continuing to burn across the country: how do those who manage fires feel about current conditions?
@Raf_Epstein
: "Is it getting scarier to fight fires?"
Ewan Waller:"Oh yes...it really is - that's quite a difficult, complex and dangerous job now."
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“Nick [Coatsworth] is increasingly being a partisan player,” says
@MartinFoleyMP
to
@LaTrioli
on
@abcmelbourne
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Bloody disgrace we don’t have a vehicle emission (carbon) standard in AUS.
#insiders
#ClimateCrisis
#EVs
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“This is renewable energy, don’t be afraid:” Chris Bowen taunts Coalition in House of Reps 😂 via
@renew_economy
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On the 17 Apr this year, our Federal Gov foolishly decided to pick a fight with our biggest trading parter
#China
. We are now up the creek without a PLAN 🤷♂️
#aupol
#RubyDutton
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Breaking: NSW Health Minister slams Fed a Gov on vaccine rollout. Gloves are off!
#auspol
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Watch SA Premier
@JayWeatherill
shirtfront Federal Energy Minister
@JoshFrydenberg
on live TV, after gatecrashing the presser
#auspol
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Today the Morrison gave another $20m to the big con of making brown/blue hydrogen from brown coal in Latrobe Valley & shipping it to Japan. This project is a $500m pipe dream. It is INCREASING EMISSIONS.
#EnoughIsEnough
#ChuckThemOut
@HydrogenAus
#auspol
#GoGreenH2
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Josh Frydenberg defending Scott Morrison’s leaking of private text messages from a world leader shows about as much judgement as defending Tim Smith’s refusal to take his leader’s request to resign (at next election).
#auspol
#EnoughIsEnough
#QandA
#springst
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Climate change is poised to deliver more Black Saturdays in decades to come.
I wrote this article published today
@ConversationEDU
#ClimateChange
#Bushfires
#Water
#BlackSaturday
@et_hub
#hub
@ClimateCollege
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“CCS (Carbon Capture & Storage) is a con,” says
@TurnbullMalcolm
@SmartEnergyCncl
#GlobalRaceToZeroSummit
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“This issue of insecure work. This pandemic has exposed just how fragile, the financial arrangements & employment arrangements of hundreds & thousands of Victorians are. It is no good for public health, it is no good for much at all.”
@DanielAndrewsMP
7 August
#leadership
#auspol
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'I suspect a primary motivation for the excessive secrecy surrounding Collaery’s prosecution is to protect former prime minister John Howard and Alexander Downer, who could both be called to give evidence about why the spying was authorised.'
@BracksSteve
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@Qldaah
Sheesh. children can get Covid, can be carriers, can transmit. Premier NSW should not be giving health advice.
@AlanBixter
@normanswan
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ICYMI. Peter Dutton was on ABC Mornings today with
@Raf_Epstein
. He was bagging wind, solar & batteries. Dutton was again spruiking nuclear power,
Dutton wants taxpayers to pay for the most expensive form of power!!
#auspol
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@abc730
#abc730
Tim Reed, head BCA is trying to spin that Wages have kept pace with Profits. I think he is talking rubbish,
@sallymcmanus
.
How about a
@ABCFactCheck
p/s
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The great Clarke&Dawe.
Timeless 👇
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'Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says the Morrison government has a culture stemming from the top to “not accept blame for anything, and to not accept fault for anything”. 😳😳😳| Sky News Australia
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There is nothing merciful about waiting another week to
#bringthemhome
just because you don’t want to admit you were wrong.
#insiders
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#Robodebt
“there remains a basic question as to why many several public servants should not be officially sanctioned and penalised for their role in robodebt”
@TheMandarinAU
#auspol
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The public servants DID warn the Minister…
#sportsrorts
#insiders
@nic_fri
@shannjenkins7
@TheMandarinAU
@sportaustralia
Well actually, Sport Australia did tell Minister McKenzie on 9 Dec 2018 there were problems with what she was doing. See SA’s Robin O’Neill's EMAIL: ‘you may choose to select those projects and fund them separately via a Ministerial Budget’
#sportsrorts
#auspol
@Paul_Karp
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#Insiders
@David_Speers
@Raf_Epstein
We do *not* have another week for the PM & CMO et al to learn how to get this right.
PM must stop giving ‘health risk advice’ & we desperately need a single source of fearless & frank health emergency advice.
#Covid_19australia
Australia refused on policy grounds to take the measures that were clearly necessary by end January. Instead we followed the incremental “we know what we’re doing” approach followed by Italy. A big avoidable mistake.
#ABCNews
#COVID19Aus
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#qt
Scott Morrison & the LNP lied about electricity prices before the 2022 Election. Dutton continues the lie.
#EnergyCrisis
#auspol
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#Priorities
| Fed Gov spends $600m on a fossil gas plant that we don’t need & nothing on building dedicated quarantine facilities which we desperately need. Sheesh.
#CovidVic
#COVID19au
#auspol
@LaTrioli
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'The election is over. The Libs are tearing themselves & each other apart. There is serious talk of a Liberal [Party] split.’👀
@SDHamiltonVIC
&
@StuartKells
@latrobe
@TheMandarinAU
#splits
#SouthernNats
#auspol
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As MEL goes back into ‘lockdown’, it is important to remember MIN Tehan & many others pressuring Premier Andrews to rush to reopen schools etc. Let’s not repeat the mistake.
#StayAtHome
#auspol
.
@DanTehanWannon
calls out
@DanielAndrewsMP
for not having a plan to re-open schools.
"We have one Premier in particular who is jeopardising the national consensus on this."
#Auspol
#Insiders
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Imagine how many EVs & Green H₂ cars & trucks we could have put on the road & how many zero emission refuelling stations - with this sort of money every year for the past 9 years. This
#FuelCrisis
is another classic failure of this Fed Gov to plan!
#Budget2022
#auspol
Two billion dollars of taxpayers money(your money) to give you ten cents a litre at the bowser? Do you think you’re winning?
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Same sector, same state, same community
#Covid19
transmissions/waves. A very different outcome for Federal run private & nfp facilities v’s State run. Why?
#AgedCareCrisis
#auspol
#insiders
#QandA
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#Breaking
: VIC Gov puts almost $500m on the table to help VIC Businesses during
#COVID19Vic
. Fed Gov finds $600m for a fossil gas plant we don’t need in NSW & nothing for VIC businesses & nothing for dedicated quarantine facilities.
#Priorities
#auspol
@Raf_Epstein
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@hughriminton
@australian
The Australian newspaper should be pulled from shelves; for three strikes: climate denial, Covid mischief, and blatant racism; or sack editor.
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‘Quarantine’ IS a Commonwealth Government responsibility 👇
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Looking forward to hearing PM's response to today's anti-lockdown protest in VIC. Black Lives Matter protests 'completely unacceptable', Scott Morrison says in call for demonstrators to be charged
#FreeForSome
#auspol
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‘Find me a water tap that works when it isn’t raining, Minister for Resources’
#ClimateCrisis
#COP26
#auspol
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#G7Summit
| All of these leaders have committed to net zero emissions by 2050 (with no weasel words). 👇
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Lies, damn lies and statistics. This reporter fails to mention New York has over 450,000 cases & over 32,000 deaths. Reporting like this is a disservice to both VIC & NY.
@ABCmediawatch
#mediawatch
Sad day for Victoria again, 19 Covid-19 deaths.
More than double the deaths in New York in the past week.
Victorian population: 6.4 million.
Last 7 days: 93 deaths.
New York's population: 8.4 million.
Last 7 days: 40 deaths.
#covid19vic
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German nuclear plant to be replaced by Europe’s biggest battery
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BREAKING: ‘Crown casino *not* subject to national cabinet ‘ban on non-essential gatherings of persons 100 and greater in indoor areas’ - when it comes to gaming areas.
@LaTrioli
@abcmelbourne
reports.
Is that sufficient to help AUS
#FlattenTheCurve
?
#COVID19au
@rwillingham
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#insiders
‘more money for Barnaby Joyce’ to get Nats over line on weak targets. More money for coal, more money for fossil fuel. But no more money for hospitals during a pandemic!
#priorities
#auspol
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How it started: “4 million Australians vaccinated by early April”
How is going: “It is not a race” “We can take our time”🙄
#auspol
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@andrewprobyn
Morrison also promised a Federal ICAC this term. Another broken promise. Another lie.
#insiders
#FedICACNow
#auspol
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#FactCheck
#AusVotes2022
Scott Morrison & Josh Frydenberg have consistently lied during the campaign saying
#ElectrictyPrices
are going down. A blatant LIE.
#auspol
#KooyongVotes
#CostsOfLiving
#abc730
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#BlackSummer
Never forget.
#ClimateCrisis
#Bushfiresaustralia
#EnoughIsEnough
#PutThePastLast
#Election2022
#NewYear2022
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@senator_sheldon
On 7 April 2022 the LNP changed the law to conceal 19.7% power price INCREASE. Both Morrison & Frydenberg told blatant LIES during the election campaign that prices were down 🤬
@Mon4Kooyong
@Bowenchris
#auspol
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Quango directors need to speak out - an interview with Andrew Wilkie
I co-authored this article (feat.
@WilkieMP
) with
@StuartKells
published today
@TheMandarinAU
#sportsrorts
#auspol
@AICDirectors
#governance
#integrity
#YesMinister
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‘I am Planet Earth’ by John Bell
@BellShakespeare
“I am Planet Earth & I do not have a vote. But you do. Please think about the climate when you cast yours.”
#ClimateCrisis
#ausvotes
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@sportaustralia
@CorpGovResearch
@lynlinking
@Jodie3735
@jommy_tee
@RonniSalt
@shannjenkins7
Constitutional law expert
@Sydney_Uni
Anne Twomey sub14 to Senate Select Committee on Administration of Sports Grants:
“The Minister had no power to approve the grants and her action in this regard was unlawful.”
#sportsrorts
#auspol
@CorpGovResearch
@Jodie3735
@jommy_tee
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General Mark Milley apologizes for taking part in Trump’s Bible photo op outside the White House: “I should not have been there...It was a mistake.”
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#LiveFactCheck
#TheProject
Bridget McKenzie is WRONG. Electricity & Gas Prices are INCREASING under Scott Morrison & Josh Frydenberg.
#NotJustABlip
#ausvotes
@theprojecttv
@SenKatyG
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#Breaking
Following the BoM wanting to being called
#TheBureau
, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) will be known as
#TheOrganisation
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nb. 26 Feb 2020. A "wellbeing budget" is exactly what is needed.
#auspol
#insiders
#Covid_19australia
This is a warning to every Australian.
Labor and
@JEChalmers
want to replace responsible economic management with a yoga mat, beads and a “wellbeing budget”.
Just another Labor excuse for higher taxes and bigger deficits👇
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