AFR is hardly noted as an impartial, informed source of information - esp’ climate & emissions.
Forrest understands the science of climate change.
His PhD is in marine biology.
All extractive industries are currently dependent on fossil fuels - Forrest is leading by a mile in emissions reductions.
Gina had paid some witnesses a total of more than $500,000 to testify.
A criminal prosecution [of her] was mooted but did not happen.
Gina claimed Rose had killed her father, & pushed relentlessly for an inquest. Twice she was refused, but on the third attempt, after the intervention of the WA attorney-general, in 2001, she got her wish.
It went very badly for her.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/23077/...
New giant green roof at Darling Harbour will be a test bed for resilience.
Great! We need more solid research on green roofs.
Many Au developers are unnecessarily terrified of them. thefifthestate.com.au/urbanism/new...
Trump’s $10billion defamation claim against Rupert #Murdoch WSJ:
“The complaint comes nowhere close to this standard. Quite the opposite,” Judge Gayles said, noting the Wall St Journal sought comment from the White House, Dep’t of Justice & FBI ahead of publication.
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
But if the unlawful order comes from the president himself? To whom does the soldier appeal? What is his practical recourse? Refusing the order places him in immediate danger of arrest & courtmartial.
And if the military does refuse the president’s order-then the nation faces a constitutional crisis
The law is clear:
If Trump actually ordered these attacks…
Service members have an obligation to disobey orders to commit ‘law of war’ violations when they receive “orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...
Gift article
Perhaps most important, the public supports effective & responsive government, not the wild swings of a fugue state — & it is making its feelings known.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/o...
“While I take seriously the government’s concerns regarding the safety and security of the White House grounds and the president himself, the existence of a ‘large hole’ beside the White House is, of course, a problem of the president’s own making!” Judge Leon wrote.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
Cars today are 99% cleaner than in 1970, thanks in large part to California forcing tougher pollution rules that reshaped the auto industry.
The Trump administration is attacking California’s legal permission to set tougher standards.
theconversation.com/how-californ...
So, the depth of Au Coalition despair is a pit they dug for themselves…
They will keep attempting to weaponise just about any issue rather than address the realities…that their spending response to the pandemic…was the source deficits & high housing costs
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22852/...
For a PM [#Scomo] to claim that he was not advised, not a lawyer & therefore did not realise legislation was being breached, or that he did nothing illegal or corrupt, cannot excuse knowingly allowing harm to be inflicted on 100s of thousands of people.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22866/...
New York Times article (no firewall)
Denmark was not taking Trump's threats lightly.
Neither were the European countries whose military joined them in Greenland waters for a joint exercise.
You can read it for free without a subscription #NYT
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/w...
The new addition totally dominates the historic building (what's remaining of it at least). Ostentation and bloated ego.
Explore this gift article #NYTimes www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
““We have sanctions on some countries [Russia], we are going to take those sanctions off until this straightens out,” Mr. Trump said. “And then who knows, maybe we won’t have to put them on because there will be so much peace.”
Trump sells out Ukraine without regret
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/w...
“Never has so much risk or such sweeping military action of so much consequence been undertaken with so little apparent planning or weighing of potential consequences, both intended and unintended,”
- David Rothkopf.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...
“…This, our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object…”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/o...
Anthropic had said it needed terms that would ensure that its AI technology would not be used for domestic surveillance of Americans or for autonomous lethal weapons.
The Pentagon in turn said a private contractor could not decide how its tools would be used.
Sam Altman’s co had the gig hours after.
Breaking news:
OpenAI, the maker of #ChatGPT, said on Friday that it had reached an agreement with the Pentagon to provide its artificial intelligence technologies for classified systems, just hours after President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using A.I. technology made by rival Anthropic.
Rod Sims: “…And the CBAM is the most trade-friendly way to deal with that. So I completely reject the idea that it’s anti free trade. It’s pro free trade.”
Sims:
“The world’s going through a big transition to reduce fossil fuel use. As it does that, you run into that awful dilemma where one country’s taking action and another’s not.
“You clearly don’t want countries who aren’t taking action to have a benefit over those who are…”
Rod Sims, eminent economist, former head of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission & now chair of the Superpower Institute.
“I think they [CBAMs] facilitate free trade,” says Sims, who was also a colleague of Angus Taylor’s for about 10yrs at the business consultancy Port Jackson Partners.
“The reason for that is that once a system like that is in place, it gives the advantage to clean imports.” FJ
