Gas tax fight escalates ahead of budget as inquiry begins Calls are growing for a new 25 per cent tax on gas exports to increase the petroleum resource rent tax on windfall profits, but companies have warned any changes would jeopardise Australia's energy su...

As the govt weighs options to raise revenue, balance the budget & confront the global energy crisis, one solution is staring them in the face: replace the broken PRRT with a fair tax on gas exports. It's long overdue, and has widespread support… www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

And while I have your attention, @journalhumanrights.bsky.social is the journal's Bluesky account. Please follow! I've assured the rest of the board that bluesky is *the* place where it's all happening, so we'd love to see some more connections and activity here for the journal 😊

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Amnesty International slams ‘predatory world order’ led by US and Israel YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

Amnesty International slams ‘predatory world order’ led by US and Israel youtube.com/shorts/anVU_... via @YouTube

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And..... just ignore the boring, repetitive, braindead bleating from Angus Taylor.
I do 😎

Why the gas giants stopped gouging After a decade and a half of mostly failed threats from three prime ministers and constant surveillance by the competition regulator, the east coast gas export giants are suddenly putting Australians ...

Why Australia's big gas producers haven't jacked up domestic prices unlike during Ukraine war.
They've been spooked by a change of community attitude, the prospect of much higher taxes and possible new laws that require them to prioritise domestic customers.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

'Like a flea on an elephant's back': The unexpected rise of solar power Solar power is forecast to overtake coal as the world's biggest source of electricity next year, and its growth shows no signs of slowing down. Behind its success is a little-known Australian inventor...

Amazing story about what a brilliant academic achieved in the 70s - kinda makes me wonder what we're missing out on now that unis and academic careers are so thoroughly enshittified www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The world has moved on from COVID. The risk hasn’t. An epidemiologist explains what the evidence says about when the next pandemic might happen — and why the risk isn’t declining

I just published The world has moved on from COVID. The risk hasn’t. medium.com/p/the-world-...

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Could Australia make enough biofuel to keep us flying? Australia exports billions of dollars worth of canola seed and corn husks to make sustainable jet fuel that is sold back to us. This is what it will take to make it here.

Is making biofuels from canola and corn the solution to Australia's future jet fuel shortages? www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Make Gas Giants Pay Gas corporations are making record-breaking profits, and paying almost nothing in tax. It's time to change that.

Jim Chalmers: Make Gas Giants Pay! getup.to/8epdywIqVVTd...

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For too long, economic policy has rested on assumptions treated as facts: that markets self-correct, that governments should stand back, that growth will trickle down.

Today in Barcelona w/ Dep PM Carlos Cuerpo and the Gov of Spain we are launching the Global Council for a Common Good Economy.

If only Australia had a leader that would qualify to join this team.

Looks like something made for American tourists to Instagram

I think he already has

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Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. 🌊
More realistic models means stronger weakening - not entirely unexpected.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra is being refreshingly blunt: there is “no workaround” for Europe’s energy price crisis.

Hoekstra’s message? The only way out is through: more electrification, more solar, more wind, more storage, more grid interconnection — and all of it faster.

The 'crop' we're not harvesting: Why Australia's brightest source is still underused As solar farms spread across regional Australia, some farmers are cashing in while others say the rollout is too fast.

The 'crop' we're not harvesting: Why Australia's brightest source is still underused www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

‘How do I end a call?’: the elderly Japanese people determined to master smartphones Elderly people take advantage of courses on how to navigate mobile devices and avoid ‘analogue isolation’

‘How do I end a call?’: the elderly Japanese people determined to master smartphones www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Bandicoots bounce back in Brown Hill Creek as team works towards 'superhighway' A small colony of endangered brown bandicoots just south of Adelaide continue to breed as conservationists hope to connect them with other populations.

Endangered southern brown bandicoots bounce back at Brown Hill Creek www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The article says 64,000 are EV’s, so the idiot market is declining

I’d rejoice if LIV golf went the way of the 🦤

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Psychology says the happiest retirees didn't quit working. They quit the parts of work that drained them and kept the parts that made them feel like a person who still mattered to the world outside th... The happiest retirees I've met didn't walk away from work entirely — they performed surgery on it, cutting out the parts that were killing them and keeping the parts that kept them alive.

Psychology says the happiest retirees didn’t quit working. They quit the parts of work that drained them and kept the parts that made them feel like a person who still mattered to the world outside their house. share.google/V5oidACtADPe...

No belt tightening for the RBA it seems.