Did you know that 83% of Australia’s gas is used for exports?
Australia Institute research shows Australia exported enough gas in five years to supply the country for over 20 years.
✍ Sign the petition to support a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/4tWQy1H
Nothing is unavoidable in a budget. Everything is a choice. Labor chose austerity because they are the new Liberal party.
If it talks like a Howard minister and has the policies of a Howard minister, it may as well be a Howard Government.
And even if they did fund it properly, why are we going from a one stop shop to a web of non overlapping organisations? Surely no matter how you look at it this is more expensive?
The government is booting people off the NDIS and supposedly onto other support. For this to be credible, rather than a fig leaf, they will have to significantly expand funding for alternatives including invent programs that don’t exist.
Omg they have the audacity to say nothing about us without us, while announcing things decided WITHOUT US.
Does Australia have a gas shortage?
No… we have more than ever.
Australia is one of the world’s largest gas producers, but Australian governments allow a handful of mostly foreign owned companies to export over 80% of it.
Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/3OdhyLq
as a colorblind person, this Tomodachi Life color guide has been very helpful so I'm passing it on
thanks to u/okally and the TL subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/tomodachil...
Charts showing Shell's Queensland operations earned $32.292bn 2014-15 to 2022-23 and paid $0 company tax
Shell Oil now up. Telling us they are "nation building"
First Robodebt, now NDIS and aged care: how computers still decide who gets care theconversation.com/first-robode...
2028 dem primary is gonna be a bloodbath of deluded egos who have zero clue how to engage with a human voter
Headline from the AFR form 2019 Oil, gas 'systemic non-payers' of tax Tom McIlroy Tom McIlroy Canberra bureau chief Dec 12, 2019 – 12.00am The ATO has labelled 102 companies "systemic non-payers" of tax, releasing new corporate transparency figures that show a $4 billion boom in receipts from the mining and energy sector.
When listening to Shell Oil and other gas companies, never forget
live.thepoint.com.au
As mean spirited and fond of punching down as any Liberal government.
The decision to scrap the plan to charge older Australians $50/hour for showers was made after months of sustained criticism, including warnings that people were forgoing other care to afford the service.
Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears:
"Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons ..."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years.
Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?)
Distributed physical copies matter.
Exactly. One of the key criticisms of the nuclear submarine deal is that they are practically useless to us in our own waters. Of course we need defence spending, and it even needs to be higher as we can't rely on the US, but involves actually meeting our needs, not America's.
Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat.
If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄
“They are playing us for fools.” 🔥
Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject. #auspol
About 2,000 fines valued at $1.1 million issued as a result of AI-assisted road safety cameras in WA have been withdrawn, six months after the devices were introduced.
UBI is worth doing REGARDLESS of the degree of unemployment that AI may cause. Productivity growth stopped being widely shared via wages in the 1970s. For 50 years, the fruits of our collective labor have concentrated at the top. Only UBI can directly distribute those fruits equally to ALL.
This is rather shocking. But yes - Japan has a gas import tax
australiainstitute.org.au/post/japanes...
Across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension, we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI and are more likely to give up.
First draft is for telling yourself the story, revisions are for telling your readers the story.
Taking this one step further: a group of EU politicians are today proposing a new tax on Equinor so that the conflict cash flowing into coffers from the current fossil fuel crisis goes back to EU citizens, not just Norwegian citizens
www.nrk.no/urix/ber-nor...
The biggest betrayal by the Aus government is watching Trump abandon every agreement every few hours and still pretending that supporting this is somehow in our interests.
It's not strategic, there's no strategy here, there's no plan, just the whims of narcissist.
Dr Assal Rad—
"Demolishing civilian infrastructure is a WAR CRIME, not a ceasefire.
"How is no Western media outlet reporting this?"
"Minns will need to take responsibility for the police violence at Town Hall.The govt under Minns enacted bad laws, the police acted on the command of unlawful directions, they were emboldened & some were violent."
(Selection of the violence meted out by NSW police to anti-genocide protestors in🧵👇)
“These deaths are incomprehensible, given there is environmental water sitting in the dam. This could save the turtles, but WaterNSW is just not allowing its release,"
- Prof Deb Bower
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Story by @lisacox.bsky.social
Australia Institute research shows the theft of legally owned guns is the cause behind the high number of illegal firearms.
More than 2000 guns are stolen every year in Australia. That’s one every four hours.
@rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol
"The assumption underpinning employment services – that unemployed people need to be monitored, impoverished and coerced – is in direct contradiction to an interest rate policy framework that requires a certain level of unemployment to control inflation."
theconversation.com/the-rbas-pol...
