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https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/01/07/peter-dutton-donald-trump
#renewables #batteries #FossilFuels #nuclear #auspol
https://energyinnovation.org/report/the-coal-cost-crossover-3-0/
The Coal Cost Crossover 3.0
99% of the U.S. coal fleet is now more expensive than replacement by local clean energy, which could generate $589 billion in new investment.Greg Alvarez (Energy Innovation)
The Greens and their rusted-ons have been using Israel’s genocide in Gaza as a prop to win cheap votes for a year. They think they can peel votes away from Labor, when all it’s doing is killing the Greens primary vote and helping the LNP to a win.
Israel doesn’t care what Australia does, and claim otherwise is simplistic and cynical virtue-signalling nonsense. #auspol
And noting (not for the first time) the Gaza Genocide is like a Rorschach Test for many. Esp Australian Jews and Labor rusties.
There are those among us who see crimes against humanity, including ethnic cleansing and genocide. And are disgusted at official Aust support for such an odiously violent, rogue regime.
Then there are those reflexively loyal to the Israeli or Labor cause and see Israel 'defending itself' from an unprovoked attack by terrorists. They also see antisemitism in everything, esp criticism of the Israeli State. Accusing most of the UN GA, Ireland, The Pope, uni protesters, anyone supporting international law while holding a Palestinian flag, and of course the Greens of antesemetism.
These robots have internalised the most vile and base of 'politics' in what used to be the progressive and idealistic political wing of the union movement. They get triggered when they see 1.4 million primary votes flow to a Party that does not take money from fossil fuel or weapons companies, takes climate change and the housing crisis seriously, seeks to restore Australian sovereignty, and has been calling out the Israeli apartheid state for decades. While Labor on the other hand has been enthusiastic supporters of the US empire and politely averting its gaze from its military and political support for a regime credibly accused of war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
Because 'politics', of course.
#australia #labor #auspol
Justin Trudeau quits: How his focus on social policy will be his legacy
Justin Trudeau leaves office never having tasted electoral defeat despite his low poll numbers. He leaves an indelible mark on Canada — especially when it comes to social policy.The Conversation
Secretive, underhanded non disclosure = lies.
Anus and the the Beetrooter keeping up a long standing LNP tradition.
#beetrooter
#anustaylor
#auspol
Reckless resistance • Inside Story
Opponents of renewable energy are combining Nimbyism and ideology to oppose projects that would significantly benefit rural communitiesAdministrator (Inside Story)
Estonia’s language and culture are becoming battlegrounds for independence from Putin’s Russia
Insights from working on an Estonian cultural festival.The Conversation
Conspicuously absent are any references to homelessness rates.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-07/china-property-crash-a-warning-for-australian-housing-market/104788660
#china #auspol #homelessness
China's property crash a warning for Australia's housing market
China's property crash is bad news for Australia's economy, and there's even a risk it could precipitate our own housing crisis.Michael Janda (ABC News)
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#law #politics
This bloke is Peter Dutton, leader of the (Neo)Liberal Party #australia #auspol #costofliving #energy #price
This is a summary of the webinar from December 2023 held by Sydney University of Technology.
#politics
#auspol #democracy
Even more relevant today with an approaching #australia federal #election.
#disinformation
“The disinformation campaign against offshore wind power in Australia comes out of the same American sources as all the other disinformation campaigns against competition for fossil fuel profits”
#money #fossilfuels
#usa #disease #AtlasNetwork #Advance #CIS
https://substack.com/home/post/p-154113679
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Discover and discuss great writing with the world’s smartest readers on Substack.substack.com
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/it-s-worse-than-any-war-or-pandemic-so-why-are-our-leaders-ignoring-it-20250103-p5l1um.html
It’s worse than any war or pandemic, so why are our leaders ignoring it?
Tell me I’m not dreaming: 2025 could be the year of bipartisan action on catastrophic climate change.Malcolm Knox (The Sydney Morning Herald)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-03/musk-could-turn-focus-to-europe-and-australia-after-us/104780406
#auspol
After US election, Elon Musk could turn focus to Europe and Australia
The world's richest man just helped Donald Trump return to the White House, but Elon Musk isn't just interested in the future of the United States.Michelle Rimmer (ABC News)
https://hcw4pal.good.do/kamaladwan/
#AusPol
#EndTheOccupation
#Gaza #WarCrimes #FreePalestine #IsraelApartheid #StopGenocideNow #CeaseFireNow #CeaseFireNowPermanently
#EndTheArmsTrade #BoycottBoeing #BoeingKills
@palestine
Join me in supporting the Kamal Adwan Hospital Campaign
Kamal Adwan Hospital was the last semi-functioning hospital left in Northern Gaza and has now been attacked and destroyed by Israeli forces. Medical staff and patients have been tortured, forcibly evacuated and some have been killed.hcw4pal.good.do
Australia needs better ways of storing renewable electricity for later. That’s where ‘flow batteries’ can help
Flow batteries can feed energy back to the grid for up to 12 hours – much longer than lithium-ion batteries, which only last four to six hours.The Conversation
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"Shadow Health Minister Anne Ruston has said the Coalition also doesn’t support a sugar tax, saying there were better ways to encourage healthy eating and preventive health, without hurting the hip pockets of families."
#sugar #auspol https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/the-secret-to-better-health-and-less-obesity-is-a-tax-20250102-p5l1s5.html
The secret to better health and less obesity is a tax
One in three of us are obese and another third overweight. Here’s how we can curb our sweet tooth.Millie Muroi (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Investigation: elite Australian big business group monetises Israeli war machine - Michael West
Blue chip business lobby the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce is associated with funding illegal settlements in Israel and sponsorships by notorious Elbit Systems whose weapons are deployed in war crimes. Yaakov Aharon reports.Yaakov Aharon (Michael West)
citizens assembly on housing in #Sydney
Run by Amplify https://www.amplifyaus.org
which seems to be a whole campaign on democracy. Interesting!
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/amplify-steps-into-the-political-divide-amid-increasing-division-distrust/ieyrx9odh
Where Australians find uncommon ground
Together we will help Australia become a more prosperous, fairer, better informed and happier country. Share your voice and help shape the future of…Amplify
"A large part of the new Forest Management Plan is the process of ECOLOGICAL THINNING….. the “material” is go to mills & suppliers to help keep them in work.
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cutting trees to sell? #money
🟰#logging
Well - who'da guessed?
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#victorian forest activists ( salvage, forest gardening, fire management all have one thing in common: removing trees to sell them)
There is no end to native forest logging.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-01/one-year-since-wa-banned-logging-native-forests-timber/104759186?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
Manjimup in transition one year after WA stopped logging native forests
The WA government insists its native timber logging ban was well planned and timber towns are now thriving, but others say they are falling through the cracks.Jemillah Dawson (ABC News)
So much of the poison we see manifest in Australian politics today was seeded & cultivated under Howard. The ‘nation of shareholders’. The demonisation of anyone who was not cis het white Anglo people with well paid work. Reframing social problems as individual deficits. Sending our country to war based on a lie. The tragedy is, as politics, it worked. Howard the cruel, unscrupulous ‘strategist’ is still their hero.
That government caused so much damage. We remember. #AusPol #CabinetPapers #IraqWar
Australia kept quiet about early deployment of forces ahead of Iraq war, cabinet papers show https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/01/australia-kept-quiet-about-early-deployment-of-forces-ahead-of-iraq-war-cabinet-papers-show?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
“Grrrrr! Downright dishonest #journalism by the Age and David Crowe.
If you look at the figures they don’t comment on, the biggest shifts are towards independents and away from ‘other’ (small right wing parties mainly).
They have no way of assessing who is shifting where, but Labor voters and a small number of Greens voters shifting to independent and former voters for Palmer etc shifting to Liberal is a more plausible explanation.
These Age polls by right-wing firm Resolve deliberately inflate the independent vote by offering independent as an option even in seats where no independent is standing.
To make Labor look worse. #auspol #politics
Also they don’t do two-party preferred calculations which would still be pretty close to 50-50 if you add Labor Greens & independents together, and add ‘other’ and Hanson to the Coalition.
They are trying to make Dutton look like a potential winner to swing people who have no idea, believe what they are fed, and follow the herd.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/young-voters-slip-away-from-greens-after-year-of-cost-of-living-clashes-20241219-p5kzog.html
Young voters slip away from Greens after year of cost-of-living clashes
Those aged 18 to 34 have shifted their support towards the two major parties over the past three months.David Crowe (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Dozens of assaults on NYE in a city this size is a very low number, the content of the article backs this up.
What is going on at our ABC?
#AusPol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-01/vic-new-years-eve-police-melbourne-sorrento-vic-police/104775916
Police seize illegal fireworks and weapons, dozens of assaults reported across Melbourne
Police have responded to more than 50 assaults but say they were generally happy with the behaviour of Melburnians ringing in the new year.ABC News
#happynewyear #auspol #genocide #israel #gaza
Impressive tactics.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-31/peter-dutton-labor-meme-pm-orders-takedown/104773522
#auspol
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese orders Victorian Labor to remove Peter Dutton meme
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ordered Victorian Labor to remove a meme from its social media accounts that mocked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and his wife.ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-12/pressure-on-pm-over-gambling-reform/104212592
#auspol
PM under pressure over gambling reform as parliament returns
The government is still yet to respond to its parliamentary inquiry into the harm caused by online gambling, which the late Labor MP Peta Murphy chaired.Tom Crowley (ABC News)
https://johnmenadue.com/2024-a-year-of-racism-and-lying-to-ourselves/
2024: a year of racism and lying to ourselves - Pearls and Irritations
The defeat of the Constitutional Referendum on the Voice in October 2023 demonstrated political paralysis on one side and reckless moral destitution on the other, and its echoes rolled on throughout 2024.Barry Jones (Pearls and Irritations)
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At last, a charter of rights for Australian airline passengers – but where’s the compensation for delays? Monique Ryan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/23/at-last-a-charter-of-rights-for-australian-airline-passengers-but-wheres-the-compensation-for-delays
#Flying #Travel #auspol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-22/john-pesutto-calls-meeting/104755834
The headline on this article used to say: "Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto apologises to Moira Deeming, calls new vote" but it appears there have been further developments overnight. If John Pesutto had a backbone and a shred of integrity, he'd know one does not apologise for calling-out a white-supremacist TERF.
My impression is that John Pesutto made a high-risk powerplay and called for another party vote to give certainty to the result — he knows he can call in some allies who didn't vote last time because they were on holiday at the time. It could have been a decisive result and quelled arguments about it being a close result or using his deciding vote to make a "captain's call". But, it appears the move has backfired, he looks indecisive and weak, the rightwing media smell blood, and his enemies have had time to organise.
John Pesutto had a golden opportunity to show strength of character and strength of leadership. He should have said: "For the good of the party, and for the good of all Victorians, we're telling Moira Deeming to fuck off and die because she's a nazi and transphobe."
However this matter resolves, this will be awful for his political career. Worse, it has the potential to change the official policy of the Liberal Party of Victoria to overtly include white supremacy and transphobia. His internal party squabbles risk changing the political nature of the party and affecting how minorities live in Victoria. RWNJs have been handed another incremental victory in the sense that they have succeeded again in their ongoing mission to Shift the Overton Window.
John Pesutto has brought this on himself.
He failed to avert a LibSpill.
It's on.
#Auspol #VicPol #SpringSt #MoiraDeeming #TERF #Transphobe #Transphobia #Nazi #NeoNazis #WhiteSupremacists #JohnPesutto #LibSpill #ItsOn
Victorian opposition to vote on John Pesutto's future as leader after four MPs seek special meeting
A group of Liberal MPs signed the call for a special meeting to vote on Mr Pesutto's leadership and whether to readmit Moira Deeming to the party room.Richard Willingham (ABC News)
Was that peak Australian protest? Guess it has Jan 6 vibes in the modern context but seems there was no question or intent of committing violence against Howard and co.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Parliament_House_riot
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