politics

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Sun, 02/03/2025 - 04:54
Governments want you to feel powerless, but the tools for change are in our hands. Australia’s economy is failing to decarbonise. Burning trees to produce electricity is phoney environmentalism. You’re never too small to make a difference I attended The Australia Institute’s third Climate Integrity Summit a couple of weeks ago. These summits are not Continue reading »
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Fri, 28/02/2025 - 04:59
I read the definition of antisemitism adopted by Australian universities and my first thought was “we need a list”, not of what is considered antisemitic, but of what is not considered antisemetic. Now it would be helpful to have a prescriptive list of what one can say about Israel without being smeared as an antisemite. Continue reading »
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Fri, 28/02/2025 - 04:52
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has released an EPBC Act ‘Impact Assessment Report’ (IAR) to address the environmental impacts of constructing nuclear submarines at Osborne, Port Adelaide. A deluge of documents — the 200-page IAR with 750 pages of appendices — have been released for “public consultation” running till 17 March. However, the IAR fails to Continue reading »
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Fri, 28/02/2025 - 04:54
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they boil an egg for breakfast. I’ve made a study of it. The conservatives wait till the water’s boiling before they put the egg in and hit the three-minute timer. I’m at the other end of the spectrum. My egg goes into the saucepan’s Continue reading »