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Who knew: Twiggy Forrest spends millions pushing for Big Government censorship

Jo Nova — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 20:55:06 +0000

By Jo Nova

Some billionaires are just nice people right?

The Digital Duty of Care censorship bill is supposed to save the children, but a lot of the “grassroots” support for it comes from a billionaire and the government itself.

Andrew Forrest | Photo by Xuthoria

Michael Shellenberger has connected some dots which Australian journalists don’t seem to have. While they were busy writing about Gina Rinehart buying Pauline Hanson a plane, they didn’t notice that there is a whole web of connections, loosely in the order of $10 million in funding, between Andrew Forrest and groups which promote the Digital Duty of Care Act (DDoC) and other online harms and regulation which is so obviously designed to censor us.

Andrew Forrest even gave Julie Inman Grant — our eSafety Commissioner, an all-expenses paid AI policy summit with 30 government, academic and technology leaders at Forrests’s Minderoo Station. She forgot to mention the $5,000 worth of hospitality in the official gifts register. Five days after the summit Mindaroo messaged everyone there about developing their ideas into a strategy. What looks, acts and smells like it thinks it is a government policy unit? It almost looks like a pet [...]

Saturday

Jo Nova — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 16:44:00 +0000

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Friday

Jo Nova — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:13:00 +0000

9.6 out of 10 based on 14 ratings

COP31 may be the Biggest Junket in History, but The Money has left the room: Climate-finance falls 70%

Jo Nova — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:43:21 +0000

By Jo Nova

92,000 Grifters and they still can’t change the weather…

More than 92,000 people have registered to turn up in Turkey for the annual UN Christmas party, sorry, I mean Conference of Parties, or COP31. They won’t all turn up, but it’s a measure of just how vast the climate-fear industry has become. And this is despite the United States sending no official delegation at all.

And this is no small weekend event, the full program lasts two whole weeks. This is truly the Olympic-level Junket. It’s a reward for all the career climate believers. It’s the Leadership Retreat for the top 80,000 sales reps, paid for, mostly, by the hapless taxpayers of the world.

Final numbers won’t be known until after the event, but at COP28 in Dubai, about 97,000 people registered to attend in person, and 84,000 actually turned up. If COP31 follows the same pattern, it will attract about 80,000 attendees. Think of how many flights this is, how many meals and hotel rooms. It’s a lot of money. It’s a lot of carbon, but who cares, right?

It’s money for jam. A great way to reward and motivate the underlings. Think of it [...]

Thursday

Jo Nova — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:03:00 +0000

9.7 out of 10 based on 10 ratings

Don’t brag Mr Bowen: Australia wholesale electricity prices fell due to random luck and buckets of money

Jo Nova — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 20:44:57 +0000

By Jo Nova

Chris Bowen, Crwford Forum, 2016

Chris Bowen still insists “Renewables are the Cheapest”

Our Minister for Weather Control and Electricity is starring as co-President of the COP31 meeting in Turkey. He was asked how he can convince the world to adopt renewables when “households in Australia had been facing skyrocketing bills”. His answer (this week) is “wholesale electricity prices”.

This is because it’s the one thing that’s headed in the right direction in an ocean of failures, though it’s mostly only due to good luck and a truckload of money. Wholesale prices came down during winter because the weather was kind this year, and we spent billions of dollars on batteries. The batteries may or may not be cost effective, but it doesn’t matter, their costs were subsidized, so those billions are not included in the quarterly spot price for electricity. It comes out of some other government account…

And thus the fantasies flow:

COP31: Chris Bowen defends renewables as energy prices soar

He told The Australian: “Wholesale prices is really the cost of producing energy. That is what wholesale prices are. And we’re making the energy so much cheaper to [...]

Wednesday

Jo Nova — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:05:00 +0000

9.3 out of 10 based on 16 ratings

Now China produces more coal than the rest of the world combined

Jo Nova — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 20:11:18 +0000

By Jo Nova

There’s one place on Earth where carbon emissions are irrelevant

This is the Hippopotamus hiding in the climate-kitchen. The whole world keeps walking past, apoplectic about how big the mice under the sink are. Trillions of dollars are spent tracking the mice, giving them Ozempic to slim them down, and complaining about the smell, but nobody asks the hippo to shift.

China mined 4.66 billion tonnes of coal in 2025, compared with 4.39 billion tonnes for the entire rest of the world. That’s 51.5% of global coal production.

It’s just one country. Yet they mine more coal than everyone else combined.

OWID — data is from the Energy Institute. (Click to enlarge)

We can see that the entire industrial revolution, and the rise and fall of coal production in Britain is but a small blip. Two centuries of British industrial history have been reduced to a bump at the bottom of the graph. The surge that transformed the world with factories, railways, steamships and iron foundries spawned a giant. China became the coal furnace of the world.

And because China is also importing coal, its consumption is an even larger proportion, at nearly 5 billion [...]

Tuesday

Jo Nova — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 16:07:00 +0000

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Monday

Jo Nova — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 17:43:00 +0000

9.6 out of 10 based on 16 ratings

Sunday

Jo Nova — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 16:21:00 +0000

9 out of 10 based on 25 ratings

Freedom lovers and young families are leaving Australia for Bali

Jo Nova — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 08:52:16 +0000

Perth, Western Australia from Kings Park

By Jo Nova

Exactly the kind of people Australia needs are starting to leave

The most depressing thing I read this week (apart from the Midterm debacle) is that Rebekah Barnett, The Dystopian Downunder, is leaving Australia to live in Bali. The reason this is depressing is that I completely understand why she’s doing that. She writes a blog about problems with vaccines, medical issues and threats to our freedom.

With a baby in Perth, she can’t even afford childcare without the same government funded “family assistance” type payout our overlords deign to give back to us, but only if we inject our babies with their experimental not-properly-tested vaccines. It’s not much of a choice. Nanny’s could do the job without vaccination but they cost $35 – $40 per hour. In other words, only the rich have true freedom to choose. The poor pay their taxes, but lose $950 a year per child of the Family Tax Benefit Part A and they lose the Child Care Subsidy too. So it costs nearly $1000 per year per child to refuse to take even one vaccine on the whole schedule.

But mostly, even above [...]

Smoke and mirrors: What do you call “Back up power” without calling it “Back up power”?

Jo Nova — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:48:42 +0000

By Jo Nova Strategic word games bureaucrats play…

The latest brainwave of our collective Australian Energy Ministers is to establish a “strategic reserve of electricity”. Which sounds a lot like what normal people have called “back up power” for the last 100 years.

It appears State Energy Ministers have realized they have to do something about the coming blackouts, but they don’t have it in them to just say, the skeptics were right, we need more back up power, because that would be like admitting the climate deniers had a point.

Also, if you call it backup power, people might ask why we got rid of so much of it in the first place. But call it a strategic reserve and suddenly it’s an exciting new policy initiative.

So they’ve discovered the ancient bureaucratic art of renaming the problem, commissioning another report, and emerging triumphantly with a solution that has been around for a century. That way they can pretend they are saving the day with something they dreamed up themselves to solve a problem that has only appeared yesterday.

It’s so unfair. Who could have seen the blackouts coming just because we’re trying to shut down an efficient [...]

Saturday

Jo Nova — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:32:00 +0000

10 out of 10 based on 14 ratings