The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) airs grid controversies on the 7:30 Report: "The fight between farmers and the Victorian government is spilling onto the paddock";

"Australia’s sales of big cars are out of control";

"Helping producers navigate sustainability opportunities";

"Blackout risk: Grid ‘not ready’ for coal plant closures, solar surge";

"‘The New Price of Eggs.’ The Political Shocks of Data Centers and Electric Bills";

"Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War";

"Who are the Australians trying to shut down the world’s biggest coal port?";

"Australia could miss clean energy target as solar and wind investment slumps, investors warn";

"Petrol Vehicles Are 5-20 Times More Likely to Catch Fire than EVs: Peak Body".

Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, signed a sweeping agreement on Thursday laying the groundwork for a new oil pipeline to expand Alberta’s oil sands, exempting the province’s energy industry from several environmental laws.

Carney is pictured here with Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith.

"Canada Lifts Climate Laws for Alberta Oil Sands, Planning Pipeline";

"More than 1,000 Amazon workers warn rapid AI rollout threatens jobs and climate";

"Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown";

"Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In?";

"The Supreme Court’s Ethics Code Is a Joke. Big Oil Knows That. ";

"Renewable energy zone win";

"Preparing for a hotter, drier basin";

"Funding for sustainable water solutions";

"Water planning over morning tea".

Ben Pederick (pictured recording an interview post The Adaptation Game - TAG) is a big man with a big smile, a big heart and some equally big ideas about how we step up to the challenges we confront arising from the seriously different weather events being brought to us courtesy of a worsening climate.

The City of Greater Shepparton has bought several sets of The Adaptation Game, and locals have been trained as facilitators to oversee and orchestrate the games, which will be available through local libraries.

You can learn more about TAG by watching: "The Adaptation Game: a Community Climate Resilience Drill built on Stories"

Australia's Climate and Energy Minister, Chris Bowen (pictured), is attending climate talks in Belem, Brazil, at COP30. However, the talks have gone a little awry for Australia, as it has ceded COP31 to Turkey.

"Australia can win big international bids when it wants. This was an omnishambles";

"Anger, questions over Albanese’s call to concede COP to Turkey";

"‘Avoidable failures’: Government defies watchdog on compensation for flood victims";

"The Accidental Activist, Madeleine Serle";

"Australia beaten by the Turks. Don’t mention the war";

"Victoria’s EV battle: Should non-drivers pay for roadside chargers?";

"World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds".

California Governor Gavin Newsom (picture) steals the spotlight at COP30 in Brasil - "Newsom in the Spotlight at the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip";

"This widely used chart makes the clean energy switch seem much harder than it actually is";

"Indigenous People, Long Sidelined at Climate Talks, Take the Stage in Brazil";

"‘I didn’t agree to that’: The proposal that triggered uproar in the Coalition party room";

"A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics";

"Earth Nowhere Near Where It Needs to Be to Avoid Catastrophic Climate Change";

"COP30 Forges Ahead as World’s Biggest Emitter, the United States, Stays Absent";

"How Monash Uni took a $43m moral stand and gave Building 94 its name back";

"The comforting but dangerous fantasy of ‘normal’ climatic and political aberrations".

Liberal Party leader, Sussan Ley (pictured), is at the centre of discussions that mean little to what it is that Australians need to hear about addressing climate change.

"These numbers say net zero is doomed – and so is Sussan Ley";

"Where the sky keeps bursting";

"Greenwashing in the Evergreen State";

"Ley’s job on the line as Liberals reject net zero";

"Birrell advocates for coal, gas, and eventually nuclear";

"The Liberal party’s betrayal of younger voters on net zero isn’t just a moral failure – it’s electoral stupidity";

"The spectacular nonsense of the Coalition’s internal brawl over the 2050 net zero emissions target".

Marian Wilkinson has sliced through the fossil fuel companies, particularly Woodside, and our politicians, in her latest Quarterly Essay," Woodside vs The Planet: how a company captured a country".

The Australian investigative journalist is interviewed here by the co-convenor from Climate 200, Kate Hook.

It's long — more than an hour — but well worth your time.

Victorian Trades Hall Council assistant secretary, Danae Bosler (pictured), told those at the Saturday, November 8, launch of the Climate Safety Plan, that it was the workers who bore the brunt of the world's changing climate.

She argued that they knew best what the problems were and how they should be confronted and resolved.

Nurse practitioner and union member, Sigrid Pitkin, explained to those at the Millennium Building launch at Seddon, in Melbourne's west, how a thunderstorm asthma event impacted Melbourne's health services.

Sigrid predicted that a warming climate would bring more similar and even worse events.

The Climate Safety Plan will propose policies spanning eight key areas: built environment; health; insurance; emergency management; community resilience; food and agriculture; workers' rights; and income support.

Speakers at the launch included:

• Kate Thwaites MP, Special Envoy for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience.
• Madeleine Serle, Maribyrnong Community Recovery Association.
• Danae Bosler, Assistant Secretary, Victorian Trades Hall Council
• Sigrid Pitkin, Nurse Practioner and union member
• Angela Ashleigh-Chiew, Environment Victoria.
• Shweta Dakin, GenWest and;
• Emma Bacon, Sweltering Cities.