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We sure did. We’re horrified by the carnage in American social, cultural and especially environmental spheres. Safe climate, economic equity, affordable housing, free Medicare and respect for Indigenous peoples. That’s what we voted for in Australia.

“Gut the chook”

Labor releases election promise costings including saving of $6.4bn from cutting more consultants A re-elected Labor government would also claw back $760m by increasing the cost of student visa applications * Polls tracker; Election guide; Interactive seat explorer * Party policies; Micro parties explained; Full election coverage * Listen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: Gina * Get our afternoon election email,free app ordaily news podcast A re-elected Albanese government says it would find a further $6.4bn in savings by continuing to slash the federal government’s use of consultants and labour hire firms and ensuring public servants do more core work themselves. The savings were announced as part of Labor’s policy costings by the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, who also downplayed a warning from global rating agency S&P that big spending election commitments could put Australia’s treasured AAA debt rating at risk. Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

Labor releases election promise costings including saving of $6.4bn from cutting more consultants

Dutton’s Darstardly Denials.

Couldn’t agree more. What an utter insult to everyone impacted by these climate events - Dutton Deep in Denial.

Is eating farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of Tasmanian evolution? | Tim Flannery Without the strongest conservation efforts, it can’t be long before the Maugean skate – and other marine living fossils in Australia – are wiped out

The Maugean skate's "predicament is forcing ordinary Australians to ask whether it’s right to snuff out 40m years of evolution for a salmon bagel."
— Tim Flannery
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Dutton and Littleproud mislead in bad-faith concern-trolling of home battery rebate plan Coalition tries on “social justice” concerns in response to Labor’s home battery plan, and insists the best solution is to “flood the market with gas.”

The ‘Cheaper Home Batteries’ program seems like a rare climate policy win that tackles both power grid emissions and cost of living concerns at the same time. reneweconomy.com.au/dutton-and-l...

Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election? Some of the country’s most loved native species, including the koala and the hairy-nosed wombat, are on the brink. Is this their last chance at survival?

This is worth a read, it's important. But, three key points are missing.

1. A dysfunctional, Murdoch-poisoned Fourth Estate.
2. We live in a plutocracy, where both major parties are captured by industry.
3. We haven't had Environment Ministers with spines.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Where is our humanity?

Hosting the UN climate summit is far from ‘madness’ – here’s how Australia stands to benefit Peter Dutton says co-hosting the 2026 UN climate summit is ‘madness’. But Australia would be mad to miss out on the benefits, including investment in renewables.

Hosting the UN climate summit is far from ‘madness’ – here’s how Australia stands to benefit
theconversation.com/hosting-the-...

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The Beverly Hillbillies with faces replaced with Peter Dutton, Kirilie Dutton, Gina Rinehart and John Howard, plus David Littleproud. I’m exhausted after writing all that

Well, the first thing you know, old Pete’s a PM multimillionaire
Kin folk said, Pete, move away from there
Said, Sydney is the place you oughta be
So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Kirribilli
House, that is, swimmin' pools, movie stars…

Nanna News 31 Mar 2025 Following the announcement of the election date, Nannas are calling for more climate action because extreme weather events result in higher costs for all. Last week we attended events where we lear…

Nannas are calling for more climate action because extreme weather events result in higher costs for all. Native forest logging, health impacts of coal -fired power and our weak environmental laws were also on last week's agenda. knittingnannas.org/2025/04/01/n...

Your house is becoming uninsurable due to climate risks. Albo and Dutton won't mention it Premiums in disaster-prone regions have increased by up to 400%, posing a systemic financial risk. Don't expect it to be an election issue.

Great @nickfeik.bsky.social piece on how bad it is that both major parties are refusing to engage with the already-very-bad insurance crisis caused by the impacts of burning coal, oil and gas

"Premiums in disaster-prone regions have increased by up to 400%, posing a systemic financial risk"

That’s an embarrassing ad to begin with…

Thinking about a nuclear powered energy future?

Want to know what your power bills would look like?

Here ya go - plug in your current bill and see what you’ll be up for under Dutton’s nuclear scenario.

Figures based on best available data from like European countries.

afae.net.au/calculator/

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees with General Milley that Americans do not owe our allegiance to a King, Queen, or a wannabe dictator. We owe our allegiance to the Constitution.

Fuck the nonsense trump says about being a king.

Hmmm

Heartbreaking

I couldn’t watch. What a nonsense it was.

Splitting up insurance companies is all well and good. But the overriding reason housing insurance premiums are going up is climate change.

Albanese sparks anger with pledge over controversial salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour Prime minister tells Salmon Tasmania of promise to change legislation and allow ‘sustainable’ farming to continue

After undermining all meaningful action to protect Nature this parliament, the PM has swallowed the salmon industry’s BS hook, line and sinker 🤯😥

The industry pays little in tax & is driving species like the Maugean Skate to extinction.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

What to say…

instead of offsets funding bullshit schemes like this - what if they funded, oh I don’t know, A SWIFT TRANSITION TO CLEAN ENERGY?

Allentown adopts policy of non-collaboration with ICE as part of welcoming city movement • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Half of the city’s roughly 125,000 residents Latino or Hispanic and one-fifth are foreign-born, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Bless

One by one, Pennsylvania's cities vow to protect their residents from federal overreach.

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