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CEFC invests $50 million to help kick gas out from student digs
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:54:24 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://reneweconomy.com.au/cefc-invests-50-million-to-help-kick-gas-out-from-student-digs/>
"The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) says it has invested $50 million
to help Scape Australia, a leading provider of student accommodation,
accelerate electrification and kick out gas across the its nationwide
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‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:53:25 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/04/the-white-house-effect-netflix-documentary-climate>
"In 1988, the United States entered into its worst drought since the Dust Bowl.
Crops withered in fields nationwide, part of an estimated $60bn in damage
($160bn in 2025). Dust storms swept the midwest and northern Great Plains.
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“A culture of fear”: Bushfire survivor tells Senate inquiry how climate misinformation fuels trauma and silences voices
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:51:40 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-culture-of-fear-bushfire-survivor-tells-senate-inquiry-how-climate-misinformation-fuels-trauma-and-silences-voices/>
"Australia’s escalating misinformation crisis is not an abstract problem
measured in bot networks, engagement metrics or parliamentary submissions.
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‘Fights for our material survival’: documentary goes inside the battle for trans rights
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:50:38 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/17/heightened-scrutiny-trans-documentary-sam-feder>
"Trans documentarian Sam Feder’s latest feature
Heightened Scrutiny is a kind
of two-for-one – an affecting portrait of one of the most important trans
activists of our time, and a continuation of the media critique he established
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Australia’s most renewable grid sets spectacular new wind record as it awaits word on COP hosting bid
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:48:49 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-most-renewable-grid-sets-spectacular-new-wind-record-as-it-awaits-word-on-cop-hosting-bid/>
"If the share of renewables in its local grid were the main criteria, then
South Australia would be a shoe-in for hosting next year’s United Nations
climate jamboree.
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White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:47:49 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/17/grokipedia-elon-musk-far-right-racist>
"Entries in Elon Musk’s new online encyclopedia variously promote white
nationalist talking points, praise neo-Nazis and other far-right figures,
promote racist ideologies and white supremacist regimes, and attempt to revive
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Ninajirachi started making music because of YouTube. Now she’s up for eight Aria awards
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:48:05 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/17/ninajirachi-i-love-my-computer-aria-awards-2025-interview>
"Ninajirachi is having a dream run with her debut album
I Love My Computer –
and between leading this year’s Aria nominations with eight nods and the
rapturous crowds at sold-out shows, she knows it.
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SunCable signs “landmark” deal with traditional owners for Australia’s biggest solar project
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:46:21 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://reneweconomy.com.au/suncable-signs-landmark-deal-with-traditional-owners-for-australias-biggest-solar-project/>
"SunCable says it has reached a “landmark” 70-year deal with traditional owners
for the development of what will be Australia’s biggest solar project – to be
built on a cattle station in the heart of the Northern Territory.
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Trump is turning the US military into a political prop
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:45:16 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/17/trump-politics-military-pentagon-hegseth>
"Of all the reasons Americans have been losing sleep recently – hunger,
canceled flights, Democrats betraying them – the most ominous has to do with an
institution usually absent from discussions about the fate of our democracy:
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Strangers in their own land: how a new citizenship category could avoid a trap for Indigenous children born overseas
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:43:48 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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