The anti wind farm groups in Australia are the clearest manifestation imaginable of Astro-turfing. #auspol - ThreadSky

igaffitti.bsky.social•85 days ago

Stuff we’re never going to see in any msm…

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wattlethedaybring.bsky.social•86 days ago

Barnaby's hands would be all over this.

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cleardaymike.bsky.social•86 days ago

.....and #AtlasNetwork Australia!!

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proftimstephens.bsky.social•86 days ago

Credit to @danilic.bsky.social for the tile.

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spatialmdl.bsky.social•86 days ago

Deirdre Chambers, what a coincidence

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sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social•86 days ago

Hear hear

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baagroak.bsky.social•86 days ago

It's stitch ups all the way down.

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mygiddyaunt.bsky.social•86 days ago

They are obviously orchestrated. Same thing about a decade ago with the Waubra Foundation in regional Vic, created by Peter Mitchell, a director of several oil and gas companies and aligned with IPA/Libs, saying windmills were making ppl sick.
Follow the money! https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Waubra_Foundation

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bystander1.bsky.social•86 days ago

"The Waubra Foundation claims to be an independent organisation but it has direct links to the Australian Landscape Guardians"
"The Australian Landscape Guardians (ALG) is and Australian anti-wind farm lobby group"
https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/the-landscape-guardians-and-the-waubra-foundation,3995

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bystander1.bsky.social•86 days ago

"Exploring the Guardians’ history, their MO was to spring up spontaneously wherever a wind farm was planned. This is not unusual in itself, but in in all my years working with community environment groups, we never achieved that degree of organization and financial support in such record time."

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bystander1.bsky.social•86 days ago

"I counted 26 Landscape Guardians groups in March 2011 – which rapidly grew to 70 within a couple of months – each named after the town nearest to the planned wind farm to simulate “local” roots. ".

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mygiddyaunt.bsky.social•86 days ago

Pretty devious!
And I remember that they presented in a way that was like a genuine issue presented from a more progressive caring POV.

It's cynical and infuriating when far RW do that - as with 'antisemitism' atm, or the anti-trans 'women's rights' ppl, both which also have their astroturfers!

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angry-goddess.bsky.social•86 days ago

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inflatableplant.bsky.social•86 days ago

He's literally the head of the astroturf group "Responsible Future" in Illawarra, and only the local news bothered to mention it

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sandyhorne.bsky.social•86 days ago

Very interesting. I hadn't heard the term 'astroturfing' before. I've been trying to do some research about the anti-wind farm groups. They seem to have sucked in some good people who are repeating their nonsense. I suspect that Rinehart, Murdoch, etc are behind it all.

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sbalfour.bsky.social•86 days ago

Anti wind farm aka fossil fuel lobby

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sandyhorne.bsky.social•86 days ago

Yes.

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lenche-sk.bsky.social•86 days ago

LNP up to their dirty tricks

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lordsedgwick.bsky.social•86 days ago

Well not spotted 👇

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lordsedgwick.bsky.social•86 days ago

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dumbeblonde.bsky.social•86 days ago

Deaths from coal tankers are bad mkay but not quite as bad as deaths from wind farms are bad mkay

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jr002.bsky.social•86 days ago

Wonder if he was also a newscorp plant

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bystander1.bsky.social•86 days ago

https://x.com/TheNoisyTrunk/status/1890277589178310924

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bystander1.bsky.social•86 days ago

At least he didn't bring this poor child to the above rallies - just look at her face while he is shouting. One thing to protest but leave your young child, who doesn't know what's going on, at home

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krismd.bsky.social•85 days ago

He cares about the child in the same way he cares about all our kids future.

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bystander1.bsky.social•86 days ago

"Alex personally welcomes the efforts "helping the country better understand the costs of energy projects" by Aidan Morrison, director of Energy Research at Australia’s Centre for Independent Studies"
https://www.theillawarraflame.com.au/news/local-and-vocal-why-offshore-wind-protestors-were-happy-to-hear-from-the-nationals

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bystander1.bsky.social•86 days ago

"Amanda Ivaneza
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Wollongong Area
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/729217955702227/posts/1025387349418618/

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bystander1.bsky.social•86 days ago

"CIS is affiliated with the United States–based Atlas Network" "In 2023, the CIS partnered with other think tanks including the IPA and LibertyWorks, conservative lobby group Advance and fossil fuel companies to coordinate the No campaign during the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum"

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