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Lula winning the Brazil Presidential election is all kinds of good news live.thepoint.com.au

Gosh that was fun! Marching with around 300 people through Sydney CBD for #ClimateAction organised by (and for) our future - Sydney Students for Climate thanks for the invite!

For decades we were told that this plant could exist because “carbon capture and storage” was going to sequester carbon in bedrock — Dear Reader, they told that lie so they could sell gas.

While the 2,500 jobs cuts are horrific enough for the workers and their families, worse still is the commentary that this is due to increased use of AI. The productivity “benefits” of AI are about cutting jobs and raising profits rather than living standards for Australians.

Happy happy Wombat Day to all you curious intelligent & muscular wombats out there. Dig those burrows across Australian grasslands, forests & mountains—we are advocating for your protection. www.worldanimalprotection.org/our-campaign... wombatecosystem.com/cultural-and...

Someone's doing ok out of this cost-of-living crisis... www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

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Markets are an important piece of social and food infrastructure. Markets such as the Queen Victoria market which rely on Epping for supplies provide Victorians affordable fresh produce and shared spaces for the community. Privatisation of infrastructure only benefits the private sector. #auspol

Experts tell us there's "a growing grievance generation, young people searching for purpose and belonging". But somehow the government never connects the dots that having one in six kids growing up in poverty might generate grievances? #inequality #RaiseTheRate #auspol

"Australia is losing $45 billion a year in potential revenue because it is failing to collect more from the extractive mining and gas industries when commodity prices boom and profits surge." @garethhutchens.bsky.social #inequality #auspol

Much debate about where to from here after the shocking attack on Helen Haines. The answer is..Helen Haines. She has demonstrated through her non combative community approach to politics and that there is a better way to do politics. She is the leader … She is the example…do as Helen would do.

Since 1284, the wealth of Wales has been used to enrich English oligarchs, leaving Wales in poverty. And you can see the legacy today: six of the ten poorest boroughs in Britain are in South Wales - and all of them are places that generated massive wealth.

This seems a little … authoritarian www.canberratimes.com.au/story/936455...

No, it's not a scene from Escape from New York but yes, the USA is tracking on a dystopian story arc with the news that they're going to livestream an execution from Fort Hood #sharedvalues #AUKUS #auspol

Amy notes that China has joined Japan is now onselling Australian gas. FMD we *really* need to tax the gas. Barely a more obvious policy has presented itself. One political party will do it and they will get all the advantage. #TaxTheGas www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

“Albanese is well aware there is “searing anger” among voters, as Shoebridge put it yesterday. But he would rather only One Nation tap into it, even if it meant more seats for the minor party to Labor’s right.” @rachelwithers.bsky.social Nails it 🎯 www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/02/d...

Adani Mining's total income for 2024-25 from its Queensland Carmichael coalmine was $1,315,844,890. It's taxable income was zero. Since opening in 2021 its tax payable has been zero. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"The cash rate cannot reopen a shipping lane, lower the global oil price, manufacture diesel, rebuild after a climate disaster or reverse an insurer’s withdrawal" writes Professor Ray Wills and Professor Peter Newman AO. Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/pE9mwxB0

Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to tax gas? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to build public housing? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to end AUKUS? Greens are happy to be constructive about things that materially benefit the public. We are not a rubber stamp.

Kogan CEO in June: Ruslan Kogan says changes to Capital Gains Tax will attract migrants motivated by “sick NDIS scams” and the welfare system." Today ATO Tax data for Kogan Pty Ltd: Income: $642.3m Taxable income: $0 Tax paid $0

The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.

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“The 1 per cent own a quarter of the entire wealth in Australia. In hard numbers, 20 people hold the same amount of wealth as 3 million other Australians combined. … they are distorting our politics and economy to their own ends.” People are justifiably angry. Great piece. #democracy #auspol

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Australia's PM is at climate week doing a big speech right now, and as it happens, I'm writing up my submission to Aus' proposed data centre energy rules. Which does not mention climate change or fossil fuel emissions impacts *at all*. What a hypocrite. www.pmc.gov.au/resources/ge...

“both countries needed to demonstrate how they would transition away from fossil fuels, noting Australia was the world’s third-largest fossil-fuel exporter” www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... #climateactionnow

One of the great storytellers

🧶👵 kneeling in solidarity with Australians who allege they were beaten, tortured and sexually abused in #Israeli custody for sailing with the #GlobalSumudFlotilla Israeli authorities must cooperate fully with investigation by Australian Federal Police. Read here michaelwest.com.au/a-world-firs...

20yr German study of health related qual/life impacts of living within 6km of #WindTurbines finds no effects. N Germany has one of most widespread & dense distrib of turbines anywhere in the world www.nature.com/articles/s41... @cleanenergycouncil.bsky.social @simonahac.bsky.social @ketanjoshi.co

How awesome.

Bluey translated into an Indigenous language for the first time

As ever, trying to imagine a newspaper running a "Four moves that will help you get ahead of changes to jobseeker mutual obligations" etc column

Posted at 1:56pm, got an email at 3:03pm from Jane Norman cancelling my membership of the press gallery

www.smh.com.au/business/com... #greenwashing #climateactionnow #safeguardmechanism #unsafeguardmechanism

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Probably just a coincidence www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Agreed. What a joke the Malinauskas government is turning into. Way to destroy an iconic region’s groundwater, environment, natural attractions and primary industries — all for for the failing fossil fuel vultures.

"No progress on Iran, no progress on trade, no progress on tariffs, but a stern lecture on Taiwan. Behold, the towering dealmaker of our time..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

A metropolis of mushrooms #sustainablecities #biodiversity

Great discussion with Oil Analyst, Rory Johnston on market implications of the ME conflict. Qatar gas production will be reduced by 16% over next 5yrs = increase demand for Oz gas. Our exports are not under threat by a fairer tax on exports #auspol #taxthegas podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

MP King claims Gas Corps need to recoup their investment in their extraction infrastructure. They currently claim ALL their infrastructure expenditure from their tax liabilities. According to the Aust. Inst. we've missed out on close to $70b since '22 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #auspol

“extreme climate impacts, geopolitical tension, authoritarianism and disinformation, along with the existence of large nuclear arsenals, form a single, interconnected security risk environment” #renewaustralia #energytransition #climateactionNow #energysecurity www.smh.com.au/national/ene...

Wouldn't it be nice to have an intelligent examination of barriers to work participation for new arrivals? Can we start with the immediate devaluing of their skill base upon arrivals? How many surgeons, teachers and skilled workers do we have under utilised and under appreciated in our community?

If it’s broke, let’s fix it

Move under the sea then

Agriculture is the leading cause of water pollution in the UK. The Environment Agency estimated last year that it accounts for 70% of nitrate pollution and 25-30% of phosphorus pollution. #protectourrivers #landuse #animalwelfare #planetaryboundaries www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New report finds flying foxes plant 91 miles million trees per year #biodiversity #megabat #saveourbackyard www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...