Put home ownership back within reach Put home ownership back within reach.

“Every year, Australia hands $20 billion in tax breaks to property investors – more than it spends on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined.” - @GetUp
www.getup.org.au/campaigns/ta...

A Simple Question That Might Help Us Disagree Better: What's Your Poison? I've launched a new podcast designed to model better discussion about politics, especially with people from across the political divide.

Thanks Peter Lewis for exploring bridges across the political divide. I’ve long wished for inquisitive politics instead of oppositional politics, whereby the aim would be to find best solutions for our future, not wedge politics and gotchas.
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Year-end surge: electric trucks outsell diesel for the first time in China - electrive.com In December 2025, 45,300 fully and partially electrified heavy-duty trucks were newly registered in China—accounting for 54 percent of total heavy-duty truck

Yay! In December 2025 the sales of heavy-duty NEV trucks in China hit over 50% for the first time, beating diesel & petrol.
Australia? We seem to prefer imported diesel instead of locally-generated electricity, ignoring cost & insecurity.
www.electrive.com/2026/01/23/y...

Exclusive: Tesla is developing a new smaller, cheaper EV, sources say — Reuters Tesla (TSLA.O) is developing an all-new smaller, cheaper electric SUV, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Smaller cheaper Tesla may be back on the agenda: a foot or more shorter & 1/2 tonne lighter.
Won’t happen this year. Hope for this decade 😂
Reuters has solid internal contacts, so story should be reasonably accurate.
apple.news/AtAgJOHspThy...

Saving Australia’s R&D, robot for cleaning up oil, and quantum physics with Paul Davies - ABC listen Paul Davies explains some of the weirdness that is quantum physics

Brilliant update on Quantum 2: physics, computing, gravitation … and can pickleball save American democracy?
Paul Davies interviewed by Chris Smith. (Start at 25:20)
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

SANS Critical Advisory: BugBusters via AI:
April 16 webcast 12:00 Noon ET (US)
• What Mythos and Project Glasswing actually are and why they matter
• Why the next 12 months will likely bring accelerated zero-day attacks
• What to do to prepare
click.email.sans.org?qs=eyJkZWtJZ...
#security

Hey #journalist
Enough with weasel words re war on Iran.
“Trump authorised the assassination of another Head of State”
NOT
“The US took out the leadership”.
Thought experiment: If it were the other way around…
#Insiders

Are Wednesday’s Apple updates a response to Tuesday’s Anthropic announcement re the stunning step-change in AI capabilities in the Claude Mythos Preview coming out of Project Glasswing? Coincidental no doubt, but masses of security updates expected soon.
www.anthropic.com/glasswing

Great summary of new EVs available in Australia @ under $40k. But I’d recommend a used Tesla Model 3 instead. Even the oldest from 2019 can charge at up to 250kW, making your road-trip charging stops much shorter.
There are 60+ used Tesla Model 3 under $40k on CarSales.
thedriven.io/2026/04/03/a...

Rare opportunity to experience a 2-day Relational Leadership Intensive in Melbourne with George Otero (from Santa Fe).
“…one of the most transformative professional learning experiences I’ve ever had.” - previous participant.
drive.google.com/file/d/1NOlQ...

Copenhagen completes transition to an entirely electric bus fleet The roll out of electric buses to two additional routes - including the busiest in the city - means that Copenhagen's bus system is entirely electric.

Copenhagen has now completed the 6-year transition to 100% electric bus fleet.
How about it Adelaide? Why not commit to doing it by 2030?
Cleaner air; less dependency on unreliable imported diesel; lower climate-wrecking emissions.
What’s not to like?
thedriven.io/2026/04/01/c...

Return to the Moon Reigniting humanity's journey beyond Earth..

If you want a quick update on Artemis II moon launch planned for this week Chris Smith’s podcast is v good on question: why do it?
Interesting that the uber-expensive launch system is considered legacy tech compared with that of Blue Origin and SpaceX.
www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak...

Outrage and Optimism podcast

Read TIME's Full Interview with SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell The SpaceX president and COO spoke with TIME just days after the company merged with xAI, making it the world's most valuable private company.

Fascinating transcript of long interview with Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX.
I often wondered how she’d managed, working so effectively for an extremely demanding and visionary boss.
tracking.tldrnewsletter.com/CL0/https:%2...

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

This is an excellent piece on AI-assisted coding and the impact it’s having on productivity and the computer programming profession.
(You may need an unpaid NYTimes sign-up, but the link unlocks the article for free access.)
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...

EVs did not wreck the great Australian weekend, and electric trucks may just save the farm The war in Iran underlines how fossil fuel addiction makes Australian road freight vulnerable. As the truckies’ bumper sticker puts it, “When trucks stop, Australia stops”. There are electric options.

China is moving ahead fast on electric farm tractors and electrifying all transport. It’s puzzling why a rich country like Australia - with so much solar and wind - isn’t the nation leading the pack on electrifying farming and heavy transport.
So timid…
thedriven.io/2026/03/26/e...

At the polling station was able to thank in person Pauline Hanson & Cory Bernardi …
… for the opportunity to put their divisive politics last on the ballot.

Apple Fixes WebKit Vulnerability Enabling Same-Origin Policy Bypass on iOS and macOS Apple fixes WebKit CVE-2026-20643 in iOS 26.3.1, macOS 26.3.2 using background patches, reducing exploit risk.

On iOS 26.3.1 I had to do this manually despite having auto turned on:
Settings->Privacy->Background Security Improvements
thehackernews.com/2026/03/appl...

Big props to all those pushing the envelope on electric delivery trucks; cleaner air, less diesel dependency.
FedEx, Linfox, IKEA, ANC, TGE, APT, Kings, Woolworths, Australia Post, New Energy Transport, Volvo.

China Unveils Its First Fully Autonomous Electric Tractor, the “Honghu T70” China has introduced its first fully autonomous electric tractor, the “Honghu T70,” marking a major milestone in the country’s push toward smart and sustainable agriculture.

Our farmers are struggling to find enough dirty diesel.
Meanwhile China is deploying autonomous electric tractors.
www.global-agriculture.com/mechanizatio...

Kier Starmer: "What gives us control is renewables. Our own home-grown energy which is then more secure and more independent. That’s why I think we should go further and faster on… | Leo Hickm... Kier Starmer: "What gives us control is renewables. Our own home-grown energy which is then more secure and more independent. That’s why I think we should go further and faster on renewables. Let’...

"Homegrown clean energy is the only way to take back control of our energy system, deliver energy security, and bring down bills for the long term." - PM Keir Starmer
www.linkedin.com/posts/leo-hi...

Kier Starmer: "What gives us control is renewables. Our own home-grown energy which is then more secure and more independent. That’s why I think we should go further and faster on… | Leo Hickm... Kier Starmer: "What gives us control is renewables. Our own home-grown energy which is then more secure and more independent. That’s why I think we should go further and faster on renewables. Let’...

"Homegrown clean energy is the only way to take back control of our energy system, deliver energy security, and bring down bills for the long term." - PM Keir Starmer
www.linkedin.com/posts/leo-hi...

#tesla #goodbye #abundance #innovation #farewell | Thomas D. | 83 comments After 11 incredible years at Tesla, I'm closing the book. It’s been the ride of a lifetime: always on the news, innovating relentlessly, constantly pushing the limits. Tesla is THE place for talented,...

Astonishing that when Thomas Dmytryk joined 11 years ago Tesla had 50,000 cars on the road; now it’s approaching 10million!
www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas...

Breakneck Speed: Summer of climate whiplash | Climate Council This report makes clear there are significant and rapidly increasing costs to continued climate pollution in a time of accelerating extremes.

No, Senator Canavan. Climate whiplash - when we lurch rapidly between heatwaves, floods & wildfires - is not normal.
Your responsibility is to pressure Govt to take urgent action to electrify everything with clean energy to help salvage a liveable climate.
www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/br...

Jacob Collier & The Metropole Orkest - Live at North Sea Jazz 2025 (cond: Jules Buckley) YouTube video by Jacob Collier

Song of the Day #74
This one is dedicated to students who work hard building their musical skills, and to the parents and teachers who bring the joy of music to their lives.
Susie Collier 1st violin; son Jacob Collier 2nd…
Enjoy.
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Summer’s gone but the South Australian grid is still 99.2% green from solar, wind etc at the moment.
Congrats & big thanks to current & former SA Govts who have prioritised the move away from fossil fuels that threaten our life support systems through climate-wrecking emissions.

“Fossil fuel subsidies harm the budget and make climate change worse,” said Rod Campbell, Research Director at The Australia Institute.

Read more: https://theaus.in/4lpmqJq

Astonishing. More than 8.5 billion miles already driven on @tesla Full Self Driving FSD(Supervised).
So important for safety improvements.
If you have spare cash and could be driving a clean-energy EV that’s many times safer than you driving manually, why aren’t you?
www.tesla.com/en_au/fsd/sa...

We are increasingly sanitised from the data a Aus institutions degrade

Stuff I voted for
Climate action
Fed ICAC + truth in (political) ads
Science literate gov (yay!)
Fund arts & science
Objective reporting back in my ABC

Insane stuff I didn't vote for
AUKUS
Stage 3 tax cuts (done)
Fossil fuels

After the Hamas atrocity in Israel, our Govt said "Israel has a right to defend itself" & then said zilch as Gaza was flattened & tens of thousands killed.
History now repeats in Iran & Lebanon.
Would our Govt stay silent if a despotic Western head of state were murdered?