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Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report finds Oxfam says investing by rich in disaster recovery widens inequality and gives incentive to delay climate action www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Last year I had to take my baby to the ER for dehydration at 10 weeks old because someone at my partner’s job came to work sick with “just a cold.” It passed to my baby. Baby was crying nonstop for days because they were hungry, but they kept spitting everything up in these enormous mucous globs.

UN experts criticise parliament for blocking shackling and strip-searching bills

After 5 years of study, WA's independent environmental watchdog found Woodside's Browse gas project was an unacceptable environmental risk on multiple grounds. Read the confidential 2023 documents obtained by Boiling Cold in my story in The Guardian.

"A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women."

It’s not the biggest problem with this idea but it’s dumb all around.

Fighting patriarchy contributes to fighting fascism. And vice versa.

"AS always, they call for MORE food relief, to expand the footprint of “Australia’s third supermarkets” – surely with so many people accessing Foodbank-supplied charities the reach of the purple supermarket is getting up there, especially when you add the fleet of yellow OzHarvest vans?"

This shouldn't even be a question. Automated trains have already improved transit service in Vancouver, Copenhagen, Paris, Singapore, etc. (Note: There is a world of difference btw driverless trains in a controlled environment and driverless cars on public streets)

I’m really keen on this term. Chrapitalism Christian (crappy?) Capitalism Read this guy and his chef’s kiss riff.

Use of automation in Australia's aged care system lacks safeguards and has led to unfair outcomes for elderly patients, the commonwealth ombudsman has found. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

As rising seas intensify conflicts between private property and public beaches, coastal planning needs stronger scientific input before disputes harden into expensive legal battles. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

Tough new testing rules for Aussie sunscreens in the wake of SPF scandal www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

The French government’s brutal response to legitimate anger is only raising the temperature in a country simmering with rage, writes a French analyst. "Protests were a predictable consequence of a population ignored by its political elite." www.deepcutnews.com/p/frances-pr...

“The principal purpose of Carbon Capture & Storage has never been to tackle the climate crisis. Instead, CCS serves to align public opinion & government policies with the fossil fuel industry’s plans for unrestricted expansion under the cover of “net-zero". www.nationalobserver.com/2022/04/06/o...

Across Australia, $32.5 billion of generation and storage is now under construction or at financial close, the CEC says in its bi-annual investment report https://reneweconomy.com.au/australia-enjoys-surge-in-wind-solar-and-battery-projects-with-32-5-billion-now-financed-or-under-construction/

Finally drew a stupid comic I have been making in my head over the past week after seeing one too many 'bogan moth' comments on social media lol

#NaturalCapital & #NatureMarkets are completing the bullshit, offset-brainrot loop for "AI philanthropy" jfc

and while i’m ranting i’m so fkn sick of the content creators w/o the facts instantly declaring this man an irredeemable monster when actually violence against women is completely normalised in our society and we will never fix that without recognising that it’s not only monsters who can be violent

He chose not to act. Over and over again, he was too busy meeting donors to act on violence against women.

Parliamentarians’ barely constrained hyper-aggression generates a special kind of toxicity. I experienced that first hand as an advisor, subject to bullying & even being physically assaulted by a party colleague. Positive role-modelling matters Angus. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Aboriginal Land Rights are one of the biggest impediments to mining expansion. The main reason why fossil fuel lobby want to nasty other One Nation people and destroy their culture, language, flag, ceremonies, history from Western Civilisation interpretation. #auspol

PHON & LNP will dutifully complete the work of fossil fuel sponsored #AtlasNetwork think-tanks that spunoff Advance to kill the Voice referendum, then offshore wind, now the Vic govts clean energy rollout & VNI-West project. All this racism is cultivated solely to protect Big Fossil power & profit.

Tasmanian health system in 'crisis' after two deaths linked to delayed ambulances

While some eucalypts are hard to kill, climate change may test the ability of others to survive theconversation.com/while-some-e...

Food insecurity is on the rise in Australia. We need more effective responses theconversation.com/food-insecur...

"The best form is welfare is a job, also our economic theory requires a few hundred thousand of you to not have a job at any one time and you must be punished for that."

Instead, we got the silly lie that there were 56 recommendations from the Robodebt Royal Commission instead of 57, the social security system left as is, the old debts validated in legislation, and bipartisan consensus on "the best form of welfare is a job". But we ask: why are people so angry?

As someone who covered Robodebt in part, it's clear nothing has really changed. Worse: the politics of federal Labor on social security are baffling. We keep hearing about how people have "lost trust in institutions". Wiping these debts seem a simple answer to help. Instead, they rewrote the rules.

"Our new guide is something we wish we had for ourselves to help us deal with employment services, and that other welfare recipients in our community have long been asking for. It explains in clear terms how people can and can’t be penalised, with rules and tips to make the system safer"

How we built the Tasmania Wildfire Index 2026 blog.geoneon.com/how-to-read-...

Welfare need to be ABOVE THE POVERTY LINE. People need to be assured it will be there for them when they need it, not go back to being (possibly illegally) cut off it when they're having their hardest times. Support people not charities. reports.foodbank.org.au/foodbank-hun...

You’re too generous. To me, he’s saying: I don’t like when you talk about your lived experience bc if more women do this, women everywhere will feel empowered to protect themselves, and coercing sex and labor will become harder for me. So I’ll shut it down by policing women’s voices wherever I can

Senior CSIRO scientists are discussing scenarios in which parts of northern Australia become unliveable and reef ecosystems collapse, and asking why the country is not confronting those risks openly. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

So-called "forensic audit"🤣 relied on by The Australian was "carried out by a retired scientist and a former computer engineer" No methodology provided but makes a lot of claims of BoM errors 🙄 Embraced by Tony Abbott, News 24 (Sky) & 2GB

Great to see a mainstream journalist getting away from the shallow reporting on "cost of living crisis", and analyzing how this is about something far more structural: #inequality. #auspol

I have so many questions about this study (& this article), but it’s not a good sign I had to read through 10 paragraphs before finding out the study has not yet been peer-reviewed for publication. The assertions about male violence seem highly speculative. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Fire emergency prompts hands-on training for regional women