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Month: September 2021

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Health / News / Social Justice

Disaster payments to stop regardless of lockdown

This is really mean. The Treasurer announced today that once vaccination rates reach 70 percent, disaster payments will start to be phased out. They will then be tapered off over …

Environment / First nations / News

World’s oldest tropical rainforest returned to Aboriginal custodians

The Daintree, Ngalba-bulal, Kalkajaka and the Hope Islands National Parks (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) – 2.3 million hectares – will now be jointly-managed by Aboriginal rangers and the community, …

Climate change / News

Greta Thunberg speaks to UN climate action summit

My message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. …

Accountability / News

COAG bill wrong on every count

Update 29/9: Senator Jacqui Lambie has said she won’t support the the offending Schedule 3 of the bill meaning it’s unlikely to pass. Defying the facts, bringing the law into …

Economy / Housing / News

House prices spiral out of control as the government does nothing

Macro-prudential controls such as loan caps based on the recent taxable income of the buyers offers a way out of this situation.

Climate change / News / Science

China: no more coal power plants

There you have it – China will not build any more coal-fired power stations abroad. This is indeed significant since China builds/finances the majority of new coal projects in developing …

Agriculture / Climate change / News

Show us your COP26 submission

The Glasgow Summit Conference of the Parties kicks off on 1 November and the UN warns it is the world’s last chance to get runaway climate change under control.  It calls …

Accountability / News

Update: Porter forced to resign, blames the mob, ABC

The PM is deluded if he thinks this scandal ends with Porter’s resignation from Cabinet. Is he off to the backbench or is there a more junior portfolio in the …

Climate change / News

A fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. We’d like to see that!

Over 2,000 scientists and academics are calling on world leaders to commit to a treaty to stop expanding fossil fuel production.

Defence / News

No to nuclear-powered submarines

Australia should buy advanced diesel-electric submarines that can operate submerged for weeks instead of spending $100 billion on nuclear submarines.

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