Climate scientist, activist, data science educator.
Hobart, Tasmania
Joined September 2011
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We wrote a book! "Research Software Engineering with Python" is available for pre-order now! @routledgebooks drclimate.wordpress.com/2021…
Man who gets paid to help win elections unhappy at the prospect of less spending on elections. #politas
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PMC COVlD Update, Oct 26, 2026
🔥44 states with COVlD outbreaks (see Alt)
🔥Double wave peaks, both at an estimated 950,000 new daily infections
🔥6th week in a row of massive CDC upward retroactive corrections going back to early July
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ALT The US has at least 44 states and territories with COVlD outbreaks, a figure identical to last week. The CDC continues to make large, upward retroactive corrections, and we are in a secondary wave peak. States with observed outbreaks include Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawai’i, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Additional states with poor monitoring likely have outbreaks based on high levels in bordering counties in adjacent states.
So #lgtas counting starts on Wednesday and by the end of the day we'll have first preference counts for mayor and deputy mayor and provisional partial first preference and distribution results for councillor (based on either 20% or 50% of ballot papers entered)? @ElectionsTas
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You deserve a home you can afford.
But housing is too expensive because Labor and the Liberals give special treatment to the big banks and the property industry.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
The Greens have a plan to bring down the cost of renting and buying a home...
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Latest polling has the Vic Greens on track to double our party room - with 6 Lower House seats and 8 Upper House, a total of 14 seats.
There's a catch. These Upper House seats will come down to The Greens vs One Nation.
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Labor just approved ANOTHER new gas project – this time off Gippsland’s Ninety Mile Beach!
We’re heading into a scorching El Niño summer, and Labor is still pouring fuel on the fire.
Labor, the Liberals and One Nation can’t be trusted on climate. For real action, Vote 1 Greens
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Of course abortion should be free. It's healthcare.
The Greens would have provided the votes in Parliament for Labor to make abortion free at any point over the last 4 years.
In fact, we asked them to do it many times.
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You may have missed it as the media was silent, but late yesterday the Labor-dominated committee looking into Lidia Thorpe’s bill to ban strip searches of children delivered its final report. The answer to overwhelming evidence of harm? Nothing that would stop a single search.
Kudos to @Leo_Puglisi6. He's one of the only journos who actually seems to understand the Greens and their electoral prospects.
If the Greens' recent polling continues, the party may surprise in a number of "sleeper" seats in the Victorian election, writes Leo Puglisi.
crikey.com.au/2026/10/14/vic…
His analysis is pretty consistent with @theswingison from a couple of weeks ago (with some stronger polls for the Greens since). He's basically just added Preston and Essendon to the bottom of the list of outside chances. xitter.cf/theswingison/status/21…
🟢 The Greens have an outside chance or better in 8 seats on today’s polling for the VIC state election:
Very likely: Brunswick, Richmond, Melbourne (3)
Favoured: Northcote, Prahran (2)
Outside chance: Footscray, Pascoe Vale, Albert Park (3)
Full model: theswingison.com/track-polls…
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Work 11 hours a day. Pay a fortune in rent. Get gouged at the supermarket. Hand over more of your wages to privatised corporations. And somehow, you're told that migrants and trans people are the problem.
Progressives warn Jim Chalmers that One Nation are polling strongly because Labor quit being a "progressive party" many years ago.
Jim Chalmers warns progressives not to ‘mock’ One Nation voters theconversation.com/jim-chal… via @ConversationEDU
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We need federal Hare-Clarke for the House of Reps, a 27% majority government is insane
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The major parties have failed us on climate change.
Now we’re all paying the price, with higher energy and insurance bills, more fires, floods and drought, and massive threats to our food and water systems across Victoria.
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"This is our moment" - the Greens are energised after their leadership shakeup, but can they take it up to One Nation?
Attendees at the Victorian state election campaign launch last week seemed to think so, with @rachelrwithers reporting a "rush of excitement" and "renewed sense of optimism".
"Vibes are high in the Greens right now. But it’s those outside the Greens that will need convincing, and it won’t be quite as easy as reinvigorating the base."
deepcutnews.com/p/can-a-refr…
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I'm doing advocacy with the Greens to get SARS-2 policy written & generate political action. It's almost impossible. Science & proof counts for nothing when our social world is oblivious to it and the illusion of normality has almost everyone frozen into a trance.
For massive #politas nerds: The federal redistribution for Tasmania was formally determined yesterday, which means the new electorate maps are now available. @AusElectoralCom aec.gov.au/redistributions/2…
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"HEY hey everyone check out how little we care about doing our job and/or crime policies that don't just equal locking up more Indigenous kids 😏🤣🤭"
In Australia’s most progressive state, when voters are drifting away from the major parties, the Greens seem well placed to make gains — but a media no-show as they were due to announce an election promise spoke volumes > bit.ly/4i6ZVJ5
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Our first hit piece (must be cutting thru!)
Love how Hun admits they won’t even turn up to do their job?
Given they didn’t show, I’ll help em out: we didn’t cancel. We launched our policy &our video about it received 10s of 1000s views,more than a Hun article would’ve ever got!
